Ryan M. Toppin was 30 when he was found fatally shot in the parking lot of Dundale Square Apartments in the 6600 block of Chesapeake Boulevard in Norfolk shortly before 10:00 p.m. on October 19, 2018. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.

Toppin graduated from Lake Taylor High School and studied culinary arts at Tidewater Community College. Family and friends remember him as an accomplished chef who loved feeding people, a devoted father, son, and brother, and a basketball player who earned three MVP awards with the Calvary Basketball Team.

Norfolk detectives opened an investigation but released no information about a suspect or the circumstances that led to the shooting and asked the public for help. If anyone has information about what happened that night or the motive for the killing, please come forward.