On the afternoon of Friday, September 24, 2010, 26-year-old Dione Jamar Tayvon Thomas was found on Hunt Avenue in Roanoke, Virginia, with gunshot wounds. He was taken to a nearby hospital but died shortly after arrival. Thomas was a Black male from Paterson, New Jersey, born February 17, 1984, and was known as D or DJ.

Within about a day investigators identified a suspect. The Roanoke Police Department named 24-year-old Ricco Ramone Devin of Roanoke as responsible for the shooting. Devin was located near Beckley, West Virginia, in the early hours the following day and was arrested and charged with Thomas’s murder.

If anyone saw activity on Hunt Avenue that afternoon or has information about Thomas’s last movements, please come forward.