Soniya Jaela Whiskey-Hull, 17, was killed in the early morning hours of December 6, 2025, in Henrico County, Virginia. The shooting happened about 1:35 a.m. inside a room at an extended-stay motel in the 2100 block of Dickens Road in the near West End. Emergency responders found Soniya with fatal gunshot wounds; she was pronounced dead at the scene. An adult woman in the room was also struck and taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Police identified a gunman on motel surveillance video firing a rifle into the occupied room and opened a homicide investigation. Henrico police arrested two 18-year-old Henrico residents, Kyre Omari Martin and Khalid Rashad Price, and charged them with second-degree murder. Soniya’s family said she was a student and described her as a vibrant soul; she was survived by her father, Raju Hull, and siblings Alayna Whiskey-Hull and Ja Quan Fraser. A viewing and funeral were held at Henry W. Dabney Funeral Home, and she was buried at Roselawn Memory Gardens on December 19, 2025.

If anyone has information about the shooting or was at the motel that night, please share what you know.