Dante Austin was 32 when he was shot and killed in Portsmouth, Virginia, in the early morning hours of September 18, 2015. Known to some as 2Gunz, he was in a car on Buchanan Avenue near the corner of South Street shortly before 2:30 a.m. when gunfire broke out. A neighbor reported hearing a loud boom followed by additional shots. Police found Austin and another man inside the vehicle; both had gunshot wounds, but Austin’s injuries proved fatal while the other man survived.

Austin had been released from prison about a month and a half before the shooting after serving a 15-year sentence, and his family was in the process of reconnecting with him. Portsmouth Police opened a homicide investigation but were unable to immediately identify a suspect or motive. No arrests have been announced and the case later went cold; the investigation remains open.

If anyone has information about what happened on Buchanan Avenue that night, please come forward to law enforcement.