David Jones was a 4-year-old Black boy killed on October 14, 1994, in an apartment on St. James Street in Richmond when a burst of gunfire struck people gathered there. The shooting left David, his mother Daphne Jones, his siblings Nicole and Robert, and James Nathaniel Randolph Jr. dead; Tamika Jones and the youngest sister, Kenya, survived. Medical findings said David died of a close-range gunshot wound to the head with stippling consistent with the muzzle being only a few feet away.

Tamika identified Christopher Pops Goins to 911 as the shooter. Investigators recovered .45-caliber cartridge casings and bullets consistent with hollow-point rounds; firearms examiners linked evidence from the scene to a .45-caliber Glock magazine and to an unfired .45 cartridge later recovered at the home of Goins’ girlfriend, Monique Littlejohn. Goins was captured in Brooklyn on November 17, 1994; Barry Scott, who had been at the apartment earlier that day, later surrendered and was charged in Richmond as an accessory before the fact.

The killings left a family devastated and a young survivor who named the shooter during her emergency call. If anyone knew David, his family, or saw activity around St. James Street that morning, please share what might help the case.