On October 5, 2019, at 1:07 a.m. police in Virginia Beach answered a shooting call in the 1000 block of Atlantis Drive. Officers found 40-year-old Sherman Lydell Lane with a gunshot wound. Emergency medical personnel treated him at the scene, but Lane was pronounced dead.

Investigators identified 28-year-old Ditron Laquay Thigpen as the person allegedly responsible and arrested him on charges that included murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The case was assigned to the Virginia Beach Police Department Investigative Division Homicide Unit.

Lane, known by the nickname Worm, was a father of six daughters and three sons, attended Princess Anne High School, and worked as a maintenance man. Friends and family remembered him as loving, funny, and caring. Does anyone have information about Lane’s last movements or the area near Atlantis Drive that night?