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Walter Darnell Adams Jr., 20, was killed in the early morning hours of June 10, 2016, in the parking lot of a Motel 6 on Williamsburg Road in Sandston, Virginia. Henrico Police answered a shooting call about 2:55 a.m. and found two men with gunshot wounds. Adams was pronounced dead at the scene from gunshot wounds to his chest and arm; the other man was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Investigators identified two persons of interest and later arrested 36-year-old Winston Bernard Black Jr. Prosecutors said the shooting began during a drug transaction: Black attempted to buy marijuana with a counterfeit $100 bill, Adams returned the bill after recognizing it was fake, and Black then shot him. Black pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in Adams’s death and received a 25-year prison term, to run concurrently with a 70-year sentence Black was serving for other murders.
Does anyone have information about Adams’s activities or acquaintances in Sandston around June 2016 that could help clarify what happened that night?