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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Travuan Rouser

Year
2016
Where
Hampton, Virginia
Source
Virginia State Police
Evidence
1
What the record says

Officers were dispatched to a shots fired call which was upgraded to a shooting. Officers arrived and located Rouser face down next to a silver Altima. Rouser had been shot. Rouser was taken to the hospital where he later died. The Altima mentioned had the rear passenger window shot out and the frame of the vehicle was struck several times by bullets.

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

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