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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Thomas Harvey

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

Around 3:50 a.m. on the morning of October 10, 1998, police responded to the 3100 block of Alvis Avenue on a report of shots fired and a person down. Mr. Thomas G. Harvey (Tommy) was found shot to death in the street. According to witnesses the suspect was seen leaving the area of the homicide in the victim's white pick-up. The vehicle was recovered days later in an apartment Complex in Henrico County.

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

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