On the afternoon of Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 2019, gunfire in the 6100 block of Dinwiddie Street in Springfield, Virginia left 30-year-old Ever Deras-Borjas with severe upper-body trauma. First responders transported him to a nearby hospital, where he died later that day. An autopsy was performed by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to establish cause and manner of death.

Detectives from the Major Crimes Bureau quickly treated the shooting as nonrandom and reported that Deras-Borjas knew his attacker. A preliminary suspect description was released: a Hispanic teenager about 5 feet 7 inches, wearing a white jacket and dark pants. Investigators traced the primary suspect, a 17-year-old male, to North Carolina and, on December 6, 2019, coordinated with the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office to take him into custody without incident. Virginia authorities filed felony petitions charging murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and sought extradition.

If anyone has information about Ever Deras-Borjas or the events on Dinwiddie Street that afternoon, please share what is known.