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LaKeia Moneke Griffin, a 29-year-old Black woman, was murdered on November 27, 2012, in Hampton, Virginia. She was shot as she returned to her Mason Street home with her four daughters, ages 12, 10, 8, and 5. After asking the children whether her ex-boyfriend Traer Ramon Tisdale had been seen outside, Tisdale emerged from nearby woods, approached the vehicle, and fired five shots through a car window, striking Griffin. She managed to drive to West Avenue and told a responding officer that Tisdale had shot her; she later died at a hospital.

Tisdale, 31, was identified quickly and arrested the next morning. He was charged with first-degree murder and multiple firearm offenses. In the months after the killing the Mason Street house where Griffin was murdered was deliberately set on fire in an arson. In March 2014 Tisdale entered an Alford plea to first-degree murder and pleaded guilty to the firearms counts; in August 2014 a judge imposed a life term for the murder plus six additional years for the weapon convictions. Griffin’s four daughters are being raised by their maternal grandmother.

Does anyone have information about LaKeia Griffin’s last evening or about the family’s neighborhood at that time?