On October 12, 2014, 32-year-old Julius Keon Giggetts was shot and killed at the intersection of Park Street and Elwood Avenue in Martinsville, Virginia. The attack occurred after an earlier altercation at a Polk Street party escalated and spilled into the street; witnesses reported hearing as many as ten gunshots. Giggetts, a Black male born January 25, 1982, in Roanoke, was one of two men killed that morning; Orlando Akridge was the other fatality and a third man was wounded but survived.

Martinsville police identified 20-year-old Parnell Markese Rucker as a suspect; he turned himself in and was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony. Investigators said the suspect and the victims were acquainted, but a specific motive was still under investigation. Giggetts was a father to three sons; funeral services were held October 19, 2014, at Cross Point Church, and he was buried at Carver Memorial Gardens in Martinsville.

If anyone has information about the events that led to the shootings or knew Julius, please share what is known.