On the evening of April 17, 1997, Rudolph Stewart Jr., 39, was found in a driveway in the 5500 block of Diamond Springs Road in Virginia Beach with multiple gunshot wounds. Paramedics pronounced him dead after police received several reports of gunfire around 6:00 p.m. An autopsy at the State Medical Examiner’s Office determined his death was a homicide.

Stewart was a longtime Virginia Beach resident who worked for the city’s landscaping department for 17 years and attended Morning Star Baptist Church. Witnesses reported a blue Toyota speeding away from the scene shortly after the shots, last seen heading east on Aurora Drive. No arrests have been made and the investigation remains open.

If anyone saw that blue Toyota or has information about the shooting, please share what is known to help bring closure to Stewart’s family.