Taquan D. “Glizzy” Rhodes, 32, a Black man, died on May 11, 2025, after gunfire shattered a late-morning Mother’s Day in Petersburg, Virginia. Not long before midday, the calm along Seyler Drive—just off South Crater Road—gave way to the kind of sudden commotion that makes neighbors look out windows and strangers slow their cars as they pass, trying to understand what could have happened so quickly.
Reports from that day describe a dispute that escalated into violence, culminating in a shooting in the 200 block of Seyler Drive. When help arrived, Rhodes was found unresponsive and was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead. In official weekly reporting for that same span of days, the incident is logged simply as a “shooting” at 234 Seyler Drive on May 11—an entry that captures the location and date but offers none of the human details that loved ones would soon be grappling with.
In the immediate coverage, authorities had not publicly identified the victim or announced a suspect, and the account was framed as developing, with only the broad outline of what happened made public. The city’s weekly crime report for the period shows a long list of arrests for other matters across Petersburg, but it does not publicly connect any specific arrest to the Seyler Drive shooting. From the publicly available reporting and summaries tied to the incident, there is no publicly named suspect and no publicly reported arrest announced in connection with Rhodes’ killing.
As the story of the day’s violence moved beyond the street and into the lives it touched, Rhodes’ family and friends spoke of him in the language people use when they are trying to hold on to someone they can no longer reach. A fundraiser created to help with funeral and burial costs described him as a beloved son, father, nephew, cousin, and friend, remembered for his big personality and for the energy and laughter he carried into the rooms he entered. The organizer wrote of the particular cruelty of the date—Mother’s Day—and the devastation of a mother facing an unexpected loss.
Formal death notices placed his death on May 11, 2025, and show that arrangements and services were handled through area funeral homes, reflecting how quickly grief turns into logistics when a family must gather, plan, and mourn. Yet the public-facing record of the homicide itself remained sparse, centered on where the shooting happened, when it happened, and the fact that it ended a life—leaving the most pressing questions, about who pulled the trigger and why, unanswered in the information made publicly available.
