Rashed Caudle was a 20-year-old Black man from Newport News, Virginia, who was killed on August 9, 2003. His obituary recorded family left to mourn, including his mother Angela Caudle and father Robert Borden, and his death later became a named example of violence used to establish control in neighborhoods around Ridley Circle, Harbor Homes, and Dickerson Court.

Federal prosecutors say Caudle’s murder was one of several violent acts tied to an organization alleged to operate as Dump Squad and linked with Slump Mobb and Bang Gang. A 2010 federal indictment charged six people with a range of offenses—murders, attempted murders, robberies, assaults, arson, narcotics distribution, and weapons violations—with authorities saying the indictment included the murder of Rashed Caudle. In 2011 a jury convicted Perry Cousins on counts that included Caudle’s murder; a federal judge later imposed multiple life terms plus 60 years.