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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Alfred Jones

Year
2016
Where
Henrico County, Virginia
Source
Virginia State Police
Evidence
1
What the record says

On October 2, 2016, Henrico Police responded to a reported shooting in the 500 block of N. Foxhill Road. Once on scene, officers located an adult male, later identified as Alfred Leon Jones, Jr., lying parallel to a parked vehicle. The front passenger side door of the vehicle was open, and Mr. Jones appeared to have one gunshot wound to the lower left side of his back. Mr. Jones died at the scene.

From the Virginia State Police cold case database. Records change. The source is the authority.

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