Travis Wayne Pannell, a 30-year-old Black man from Halifax, Virginia, was last seen alive on October 4, 2019, at a party in Roanoke. He disappeared after getting into a car, and a missing-person report was filed on October 8. His body was found October 24, 2019, on the side of Jubal Early Highway in a rural area of Franklin County near Hardy. An autopsy attributed his death to gunshot wounds, and investigators treated the case as a homicide.

The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office and the Roanoke Police Department developed the investigation into Pannell’s killing. Two men, Patrick Antoine Davis and Mario Rayshawn Day, were arrested and later entered guilty pleas. Davis pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received a 40-year sentence with 22 years suspended, to serve 18 years. Day pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder and received a 10-year sentence with 1.5 years suspended, to serve eight and a half years.

If anyone knew Travis, was at the party on October 4, 2019, or has information about what happened that night, please share what is known.