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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Deveron Ellis

Year
1998
Where
Henrico County, Virginia
Source
Virginia State Police
Evidence
1
What the record says

On Tuesday, October 22, 1998, Henrico Police received a call to check the welfare of an unknown person lying on a picnic table in Highland Gardens Park located at the corner of Jackson Avenue and Parkview Avenue. Officers located an unknown, black male lying unresponsive on one of the picnic tables. This male was pronounced deceased at the scene. The victim was transported to the Medical Examiner's Office for…

From the Virginia State Police cold case database. Records change. The source is the authority.

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