Novaa Erica Jade Boykin, 23, was fatally shot in the parking lot of a Family Dollar on Fort Avenue in Lynchburg, Virginia, on June 14, 2021. Emergency services responded to a report of malicious wounding at 5:55 p.m. and transported Boykin to Lynchburg General Hospital, where he died. The Lynchburg Police Department investigated the shooting as a homicide.

For more than a year and a half the investigation continued and authorities described it as ongoing. Police asked the public for information that could help in the case. If anyone has information about Novaa Boykin’s death or the circumstances at the Family Dollar parking lot that night, please come forward.