On the evening of October 30, 2025, a man was found with a life-threatening gunshot wound in the 800 block of E. Olney Road in the Calvert Square neighborhood of Norfolk. Police arrived about 5:22 p.m.; the victim, identified as 56-year-old John L. Howard Sr., was taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and later died of his injuries.

Within days, investigators identified a suspect. Newport News police made a traffic stop the following Sunday and arrested 43-year-old Alicia D. Carney in connection with Howard’s death. Carney was charged with second-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and felonious assault/malicious wounding, and is being held without bond at the Newport News City Jail. Authorities have not released the circumstances that led to the shooting as the investigation continues.

Did anyone in or near Calvert Square see or hear anything on the evening of October 30 that could help the investigation?