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In the early morning hours of June 22, 2014, on Shaffer Street in Lynchburg, Virginia, 20-year-old Lawrence Maliek Giusto was killed in a drive-by shooting. Giusto was seated in a parked car when a passing vehicle fired, and he was struck in the back. He was taken to a local hospital and died a short time later; police quickly determined the incident was a homicide.

The Lynchburg Police Department’s investigation led to multiple arrests in the days and weeks after the shooting. Prosecutors alleged that 22-year-old April Renae Bateman fired the fatal shot. Several other adults and three teenagers, including a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old identified as Jakiel Rasuan Benson of Lynchburg, were arrested on charges ranging from first-degree murder to use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, shooting from an occupied vehicle, and shooting into an occupied vehicle.

What details about that night or these arrests can anyone add who followed the case or knew Lawrence?