On July 7, 2017, 18-year-old Damoni Daishawn Sawyer was shot and killed while working on the bumper of a black Dodge Avenger in the area of 52nd Street and Rotary Street in Hampton, Virginia. A silver Chrysler 300 or a similarly styled car approached, occupants opened fire, and both Sawyer and a 19-year-old companion, Ryan Ray Taybron, were struck. Emergency responders arrived about 1:16 p.m.; both were taken to a local hospital and Sawyer later died. Taybron survived after sustaining a single gunshot wound.

Hampton police said the shooting did not appear random and suggested the victims may have been targeted. Investigators noted both young men were known to police and were not cooperative in giving a consistent account. Despite the vehicle description, no arrests have been publicly announced, and the death remains an open, unsolved homicide listed among the department’s cold cases.

Did anyone in the area on July 7, 2017, see the silver Chrysler 300 or have information about who might have been involved?