Alexander Shawn Briggs was 21 when he was shot on a Richmond street on the evening of Saturday, September 30, 2017. The shooting happened on Afton Avenue; Briggs was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries and died there on Wednesday, October 4, 2017.

Richmond Police investigated the case and identified both the victim and a suspect. An arrest was made in connection with the homicide, though those immediate reports did not provide full details about the suspect or the charges. The community and Briggs’s family mourned the loss described in his obituary.

What did readers in Richmond remember about Afton Avenue that night, or does anyone have information about the events leading up to the shooting?