VA VA - Demetrius Dubois, 16, Lynchburg, 24 May 2005

Demetrius Lamar Dubois, May 24, 2005

Demetrius Dubois and another teenager were walking back to the Windsor Terrace Apartments from the Exxon station on Langhorne Road in Lynchburg on the night of May 24, 2005. Dubois, of Raleigh, N.C., was staying with family in the area.

At the intersection of Yorktown Avenue and Tate Springs Road, the teenagers came across two men who attempted to rob them.

The two men had guns and during the altercation, the man holding a gun toward Dubois began firing.

Officers found Dubois lying in the street, shot multiple times.

Investigators had a description of the two black men involved: one was 5 feet, 7 inches tall weighing around 150 pounds with a short haircut, a medium complexion and gold teeth that can be removed; the other was 5 feet, 9 inches tall, weighing about 160 pounds, with dreadlocks.

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Police say Dubois was from North Carolina and had only been living in the Lynchburg area for about a month.

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