Barry Donald Timberlake was 31 when he was found shot to death in the late afternoon of October 25, 2011. Officers discovered him with gunshot wounds to his upper body in the 1200 block of Portsmouth Boulevard in the Brighton neighborhood of Portsmouth, Virginia. Emergency crews pronounced him dead at the scene just before 5 p.m.

Investigators reported very few leads in the case early on. No motive was identified publicly, and no suspects or arrests were announced. The investigation later went cold, and the family and community have been left without answers about why Timberlake was killed.

If anyone has information about Barry Timberlake or the events in the Brighton area on October 25, 2011, please share what is known.