Devoris Dickerson was 25 when he was fatally shot outside the RGN store at Jefferson Avenue and 18th Street in Newport News on the evening of Tuesday, October 30, 2012. A Heritage High School graduate known as VoVo, he was a father to a daughter and a son; his family remembers him for his role as a parent.

Newport News police investigated the shooting but leads were exhausted and the case remains unsolved. About a year after the killing, his parents Gail Melvin and Thomas Dickerson publicly asked anyone who saw the incident to report details about the direction the suspect fled or any vehicle involved. No arrests or public suspect identifications have been announced.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information that could help bring Devoris’s killer to justice, please contact the Crime Line.