Rahmel Maurice Lundy, a 33-year-old man from Huntington, West Virginia, was fatally shot after an encounter inside an apartment in the 500 block of Seventh Avenue. The shooting was reported shortly before 7:30 p.m. on March 20, 2025. Huntington police responding to the apartment found Lundy wounded, and emergency personnel transported him to a local hospital in serious condition.
Police announced the following day that the victim had died, making the shooting Huntington’s first homicide of 2025. While the shooting occurred on March 20, Lundy’s funeral-home obituary records his date of death as March 21, 2025, which differs from accounts that refer to the case by the March 20 shooting date.
Investigators initially released little information about what had happened inside the apartment. On March 21, police had not announced an arrest and had not publicly identified Lundy while they worked to notify his family. That changed three days after the shooting. On the morning of March 24, Huntington police officers and members of the U.S. Marshals Service located Amar Abdu Richardson in the 2000 block of 11th Avenue in Huntington and took him into custody. Richardson, who was 23 at the time, was charged with first-degree murder in connection with Lundy’s death. Authorities described the arrest as the result of a coordinated investigation between Huntington police and federal marshals, while making clear that the investigation itself was continuing.
More of the circumstances surrounding the shooting emerged during Richardson’s preliminary hearing on April 23, 2025. Huntington Police Detective Jacob Blackburn testified that Richardson admitted shooting Lundy during a statement to investigators. According to the detective, Richardson claimed Lundy had been robbing people at the Seventh Avenue apartment and also said Lundy had threatened him before the shooting. Investigators, however, said other people who had been inside the apartment did not corroborate the claim that Lundy was robbing people. Richardson’s defense sought dismissal of the murder case on self-defense grounds, arguing that Richardson believed Lundy was attempting to rob him. Prosecutors and investigators challenged that account with evidence they said showed Lundy was inside the apartment for only about five seconds. Authorities also alleged that Richardson disposed of a gun in a dumpster shortly after the shooting was reported.
The magistrate rejected the request to dismiss the charge and found probable cause for the case to continue, sending the matter to a grand jury. Richardson therefore remained the person formally accused in Lundy’s killing, facing a first-degree murder charge, but the available reporting at that stage did not establish guilt and did not describe any additional suspect being charged in connection with the homicide. The most recent publicly accessible reporting located on the case leaves the prosecution at the grand-jury referral stage; no later reliable report located through August 2026 establishes that Richardson was convicted, acquitted, entered a plea, or received a sentence.
