In the early hours of January 8, 2019, police in Hampton, Virginia, found 24-year-old Dominique Rashawn James deceased from a gunshot wound in the rear passenger compartment of a green Volvo sedan. Officers had been responding to a report of a stolen vehicle that originated in Newport News and located the car running on Duluth Court near Juanita Drive with the driver’s side and rear driver’s side doors ajar and blood visible on the rear door frame.

Dominique James was pronounced dead at the scene by Hampton Division of Fire and Rescue. The motive and circumstances leading to the shooting remain under investigation. No suspects or arrests have been publicly identified, and the case is listed in the Virginia Cold Case Database as an active homicide.

If anyone in the Hampton or Newport News area has information about the vehicle, the events that night, or knows anything that could help, please come forward.