Aaron Lareco Archer, a 30-year-old Black man, was shot and killed in Hampton, Virginia on the evening of April 22, 2012. He and a friend had been looking for the friend’s stolen vehicle and located it around 7:15 p.m. at the intersection of Pembroke Avenue and Shelton Road. As they approached, a confrontation with two people in the recovered car turned violent and gunfire was exchanged. Archer was struck in the upper torso, taken to a local hospital, and later died of his injuries.

Police identified Chaz Antonio Earp, 25 and from Hampton, as the primary suspect in the killing; the vehicle had been reported stolen from Newport News earlier that day. One sentence of what remains unknown: what led to the initial dispute when the car was spotted.

If anyone was in that area that evening or knew Archer or the people involved, please share information with investigators.