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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Rashide Fraser

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

On April 13, 2016, at approximately 2018 hours, officers were dispatched to a shooting that just occurred somewhere in the area of the McDonalds or the Speedy Mart across the street near 201 Lassiter Drive. Fraser was shot by an unknown subject in his spine and the back of his neck. Fraser was later pronounced deceased at the hospital.

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

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