Khylief Thorpe was 22 when he was found dead inside a Newport News apartment on July 3, 2011. Officers responded after a Norfolk law enforcement tip and discovered Thorpe on the living room floor with fatal gunshot wounds; police classified the death as a homicide.

The investigation focused on Thorpe’s 21-year-old roommate, Ian Altman. Altman was located unconscious in a Norfolk hotel room soon after the discovery and taken to a hospital. Authorities said an argument between the roommates escalated and ended in the shooting. After his release from medical care, Altman was arrested and charged with murder and with using a firearm in the commission of a felony; court proceedings and a plea hearing were scheduled, with a trial date to be set in December 2012.

If anyone knew Khylief, lived nearby, or has information about what happened that night, please share what is known.