On the evening of October 15, 2018, residents of the Ashton Square Apartments in Richmond’s Westover Hills neighborhood reported a man down in the complex parking lot. Officers who responded to the 600 block of Westover Hills Boulevard around 5:40 p.m. found 19-year-old Lee M. Hudson Jr. of Gunn Street on the pavement with a gunshot wound. Emergency personnel pronounced Hudson dead at the scene.

Richmond police immediately opened a homicide investigation and canvassed the area for witnesses. Authorities said a motive was not known in the days after the shooting, and no details about suspects or arrests have been released publicly. The community was left seeking answers about what led to the fatal shooting.

If anyone has information about Lee Hudson’s death or saw activity in the Ashton Square Apartments parking area that evening, please come forward.