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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Robert Anderson

Year
2016
Where
Hampton, Virginia
Source
Virginia State Police
Evidence
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What the record says

On August 20, 2016, at approximately 1925 hours, officers were dispatched to shots being fired at 330 E. Mercury Blvd. Lot 2. When officers arrived, they located Anderson in the driver's seat of a vehicle suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Anderson was unresponsive and later was pronounced deceased at the hospital.

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

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