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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Annunciacion Imperial

Year
1990
Where
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Source
Virginia State Police
Evidence
1
What the record says

On Thursday, February 22, 1990 between 3:30 and 4:30 pm, Anunciacion Imperial was working alone as the evening clerk at the Fil-Am Grocery Store when she was brutally murdered. Robbery appears to be the motive. The Fil-Am Grocery Store is located in the 900 block of Kempsville Road in the Providence Square Shopping Center in the Kempsville section of Virginia Beach. A black male between 30 and 45 years of age was…

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

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