In the cold of a late January evening in 2021, the quiet of a Henrico, Virginia, neighborhood was shattered by the sound of gunfire. On January 23rd, on Delmont Street, a 29-year-old man from Richmond named Dwight A. Hill was shot. First responders found him in the street with multiple life-threatening wounds and transported him to a local hospital. For two weeks, he fought for his life, but tragically, he succumbed to his injuries on February 7, 2021.
The investigation into the shooting quickly pointed to a suspect. On February 3, 2021, just days before Hill passed away, Henrico Police arrested 28-year-old Anthony Ivory Cook, Jr., of Richmond, in connection with the incident.
Cook was initially charged with malicious wounding and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. He was taken to the Henrico County jail and held without bond.
Following Dwight Hill's death, authorities announced that they would be seeking additional charges against Cook. The case, which began as a violent assault, had now become a homicide investigation, leaving a family to mourn the loss of a young man whose life was cut short by violence.
