On January 13, 2016, 20-year-old Dejon Jermaine Wagstaff was found by police dead in the driver’s seat of a crashed vehicle in the 2700 block of Byron Street in Richmond, Virginia, having suffered a fatal gunshot wound. Known to friends and family as Wag, he was an aspiring music producer and DJ and had graduated from Henrico High School.

Investigators concluded the killing was part of a revenge plot tied to an alleged sexual assault involving Wagstaff and Kiarra Trimiew, who was the girlfriend of one of the suspects. Authorities say Tasheema Peace lured Wagstaff to the location; Steven Emanuel Parson and Timothy Garrison Jr. were identified as participants in the conspiracy. Parson, then 31, was arrested after a brief foot chase and charged with conspiracy to commit murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Prosecutors later secured convictions for Parson and Garrison, each receiving 40-year prison sentences. Peace and Trimiew also faced related charges.

Wagstaff’s family established a scholarship in his name to support students pursuing music.