Elizabeth Zeigler was 34 and known to friends and family as Strawberry. On the afternoon of Thursday, May 17, 2018, she was walking on Walmsley Boulevard in Richmond’s Southside when gunfire rang out. Police were called to the 4200 block at about 1:23 p.m. and found Zeigler on the sidewalk with an apparent gunshot wound; she was taken to a hospital and died later that day.

A neighbor who witnessed the shooting said the attacker lowered the gun and walked away after the shots, a detail that contributed to the case’s unsettling calm. Investigators circulated a description of a person of interest — a tall, slender man in his early twenties with tattoos on the front of his neck — and asked anyone who knew Zeigler as Strawberry or who had been in the area to come forward.

Nearly a month later, authorities announced the arrests of Zaquarie D. Hightower and Ayah A. Alshaer on a capias in connection with Zeigler’s murder, and said additional charges were pending. What led to the shooting and the precise events between the moments before the gunfire and the arrests remain a focus of the investigation.

If anyone knew Elizabeth Strawberry Zeigler or saw activity on Walmsley Boulevard that afternoon, please share what may help the inquiry.