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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Shawn Slade

Year
2021
Where
Hampton, Virginia
Source
Virginia State Police
Evidence
1
What the record says

On November 17, 2021, at approximately 0015 hours, officers were dispatched to gunshots heard on Ashwood Drive. After the officers did not locate anything on Ashwood, they were advised by a citizen of a male lying unconscious in front of 165 Kathann Drive. Officers located Slade face down next to his vehicle. Slade was suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Slade was pronounced deceased by medics at 0041 hours.…

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

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