Jon W. Alston, 42, of Chesterfield County, disappeared in mid-January 2018 after going with his wife to the Hancock Village Walmart parking lot and not being seen again. A search near Mimosa Street and Jefferson Davis Highway produced no sign of him.

Before dawn on March 6, 2018 a work crew clearing brush along power lines beside the 2100 block of Lumkin Avenue in South Richmond found a body in the woods. Police identified the deceased the next day as Alston and opened a death investigation; the Medical Examiner was assigned to determine cause and manner of death. Richmond detectives said Alston had been a suspect in the January 7, 2018 murder of Garry Harrison Jr. on Warwick Avenue.

Investigators charged 26‑year‑old Harry E. Braxton III with conspiracy to commit murder in Alston’s homicide and indicated more charges were under consideration. Multiple others were charged in the Warwick Avenue killing. Anyone with information about Alston’s disappearance or death is asked to contact the major‑crimes detective assigned to the investigations?