Jacques B. Gauthier, 45, a man from the Richmond area, was found in the street on August 17, 2015, after police were called to the 5400 block of Edgefield Street in Henrico County for what was reported as a firearm violation. When officers arrived, they discovered him lying in the roadway with severe head trauma. He was rushed to a hospital, but he died later that day, and authorities said the cause of death was a gunshot wound.
The location has been publicly listed as 5410 Edgefield Street, placing the killing in a residential stretch just outside the Richmond city line. What happened in the moments before the shots were fired has never been fully described in public case summaries, leaving the scene to speak in fragments: an urgent call, the quick arrival of patrol officers, and a victim already down in the street. The case was classified as a homicide and remains open.
In the years since, the investigation has been kept active in official cold-case listings, but authorities have not publicly identified a suspect or suspects in the available case information, nor have they announced any arrests connected to the killing. Instead, the official notices emphasize that investigators are still working the case and continue to seek information from anyone who might know what happened or who might have seen something that night.
