In the early morning hours of Sunday, October 8, 2017, gunfire in Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom left two men with life-threatening gunshot wounds on the 1700 block of East Main Street. Officers arriving at about 1:16 a.m. found one victim, Oscar W. Lewis II, dead at the scene and the other, 29-year-old Deonte M. Bullock, transported to a local hospital. Deonte Bullock, a resident of the 2200 block of Carrington Street, died later that same day.

The shootings were treated as a double homicide and prompted an investigation by the Richmond Police Department. Authorities appealed to the public for information, but no details about suspects or arrests have been publicly released and the investigation remains open. The deaths left families and the community seeking answers and justice.

Did anyone in Shockoe Bottom that night see or hear anything that could help investigators?