HENRY COUNTY, Va. – The Henry County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man who was murdered behind a house in Spencer last weekend.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for the Western District of Virginia conducted an autopsy on January 27 and identified the victim as 29-year-old Brandon Lucas of North Chesterfield, Virginia. He had been shot to death.
The Henry County Sheriff’s deputies first responded to reports of shots fired in the 300 block of Arrowhead Circle around 1:30 Sunday morning. Deputies searched the area but found nothing out of the ordinary. They were called back to the neighborhood about seven hours later after someone found a man’s body between two homes.
Investigators said at the time that Lucas died of gunshot wounds. No arrests have been made.