Michael Key Brown Jr., a 20-year-old Black man, was fatally shot in Richmond, Virginia, in the early morning hours of March 13, 2011, his 20th birthday. The shooting happened after Brown left Club Aurora downtown; he was struck at the intersection of Fourth and East Main streets and later died at a local hospital. He had been planning to attend Virginia University of Lynchburg that fall.

Three months after the killing, Richmond Police detectives arrested three men. Cory L. Worthington, Giovanni M. Williford, and Willie T. Seaward III, all 22, were taken into custody by the Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force and Third Precinct officers and charged with conspiracy to commit murder in connection with Brown’s death. The family’s loss deepened when Michael’s father, Michael Brown Sr., died almost two months after his son, reportedly after falling into a diabetic coma as he struggled with the grief of losing his only son, known to him as Mike-Mike.

If anyone knew Michael, his plans for college, or saw activity around Fourth and East Main the morning of March 13, 2011, please share what you know.