On April 19, 2002, police in Lynchburg, Virginia responded to a forced-entry home invasion on Sussex Street that left 25-year-old Anthony McKinley Robinson and his pregnant wife, Rhonda, dead. Anthony was found at the bottom of the staircase, having died of massive blood loss from eight gunshot wounds. Numerous 9-millimeter shell casings were recovered at the scene. Rhonda, six months pregnant, was found upstairs in a bedroom and had also been shot multiple times. The couple’s 8-year-old daughter witnessed the attack.

Six days after the murders, Leon Jermain Winston was arrested. Investigators linked him to the killings in part through DNA on the murder weapon and testimony from the Robinsons’ young daughter. Winston was convicted of the capital murders of Anthony and Rhonda Robinson and, on January 29, 2004, was sentenced to death. In 2010, a federal judge overturned the death sentence on the basis of a low IQ score, a development that has extended the case’s legal proceedings.

Does anyone have information about the Sussex Street neighborhood or knew the Robinson family that could help clarify what happened that morning?