In the early morning hours of November 9, 2001, 20-year-old Zedric Daniels was fatally shot in the head while sitting in a friend’s car parked outside a Holiday Inn on Greenwich Road in Virginia Beach. The friend had briefly gone inside the hotel, heard a single gunshot at about 2:08 a.m., and returned to find Zedric bleeding profusely. Police and paramedics responded, but Zedric was pronounced dead at the scene. The State Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the head and ruled the manner of death a homicide.

Investigators have not publicly identified any suspects, and no arrests have been made. The motive for the shooting remains unknown and the Virginia Beach Police Department classifies the case as an active cold case. If anyone was in the area that night or has information about who might have been responsible, please contact investigators. Who remembers seeing anything on Greenwich Road around 2:08 a.m. that night?