Jarod Tyrell Buford, a 22-year-old Black man from Petersburg, Virginia, was shot and killed in Richmond on Friday, September 23, 2016. The sequence began just before 6 p.m. on the city’s Southside when police responded to a reported shooting in the 4100 block of Midlothian Turnpike near the Midlothian Village Apartments; officers did not find a victim there. Investigators later located Buford inside a vehicle at the intersection of West 32nd Street and Midlothian Turnpike, near Swansboro Elementary School. He had suffered gunshot wounds, was taken to VCU Medical Center, and later died from those injuries. The medical examiner was assigned to determine the official cause and manner of death, and the homicide was recorded as the city’s 44th for 2016.

The Richmond Police Department opened a homicide investigation that remains ongoing. No suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced; authorities have appealed to the public for information and asked witnesses to contact Crime Stoppers. If anyone has information about Jarod Buford’s killing or was in the area that evening, please share what you know with investigators.