A 31-year-old man is dead after being shot Tuesday night while inside a parked vehicle near the intersection of 12th Street and Rosser Avenue in the Venable neighborhood. Deqwane Brown was pronounced dead at the scene. The Charlottesville Police Department continues to investigate the case.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Charlottesville Police Department at (434) 970-3280 or the Crime Stoppers Tip Line at (434) 977-4000.
This is the first homicide in Charlottesville in 2024. There were four people murdered in 2020, none in 2021, and two in 2022. The latter figure does not include the murders of three University of Virginia football players in November 2022 as the trigger for those firearm-enabled deaths technically took place in Albemarle County.
Hawes Spencer has more information on the Brown’s life in a story on the Charlottesville Daily Progress.
Additionally, Cville Right Now reports that there was another shooting in the 300 block of 14th Street around 2 a.m. this morning.
That brings the total number of shots fired incidents reported by the Charlottesville Police Department so to 27 far this year. There were 55 such incidents in all of 2023 and 62 in 2022. Those figures are down from 88 in 2021 and 89 in 2020. There is not a full year’s worth of data for2019 in the city’s crime data portal.
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