On the afternoon of Thursday, August 22, 2019, Richmond police responded to a house in the 2000 block of Albany Avenue and found 54-year-old Clarence Martin with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene minutes after officers arrived. Detectives treated the incident as a death investigation focused on what occurred inside the home and questioned the people who were there.

Police said they did not believe there was an ongoing threat to the community but did not name a suspect or announce any arrest at the time. An obituary identified him as Clarence Buck Martin, born August 11, 1965, in Northampton County, North Carolina, and the son of Clarence Williams and the late Gloria Martin.

Was anyone in the Albany Avenue area that afternoon able to see or hear anything that might help clarify what happened inside the house?