Allyn Gray Riddle was 18 when he was shot dead at his home on Beechdale Road in Rocky Mount, Virginia. A summer 2017 Franklin County High School graduate who worked at UPS in Roanoke and hoped to join the Navy as a Military Police Officer, he was found with a fatal gunshot wound after Franklin County deputies responded to a call on the evening of August 18, 2017.

Investigators identified two young men as responsible: 20-year-old Aaron Seth Dean of Callaway and 19-year-old John Isaiah Hodges of Rocky Mount. Prosecutors say the motive was a plot to steal guns from Riddle’s family; Aaron Dean later confessed to the killing in an interview with Franklin County Sheriff’s investigators and both men were charged with second-degree murder.

A December 2018 proceeding resulted in Aaron Seth Dean receiving three life terms after pleading guilty to first-degree murder and other felonies. Hodges was set to stand trial for his role. Does anyone who knew Allyn or his family have information about what happened that night?