A quiet Saturday afternoon in April 2015 in the Deep Creek area of Chesapeake ended with a tragic discovery. Just before 3 p.m., someone checking on a silver Mercedes parked at the Lake Village Apartments off Gilmerton Road found the body of 28-year-old Jamal D. Sampson of Hampton. He had been shot to death.

Sampson was married and a father to a daughter; he is also survived by his parents and grandmother. A homegoing celebration took place on May 2, 2015, at Grafton Baptist Church in Yorktown. The investigation has since gone cold: no suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced, and the Chesapeake Police Department lists the case among its cold case homicides.

Anyone with information that could help bring Sampson’s killer to justice is asked to contact the Chesapeake Crime Line.