On the night of April 15, 2009, two teenagers were murdered on the doorstep of a home on Rowland Avenue in the South Norfolk section of Chesapeake, Virginia. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Compton and his 16-year-old friend Mason Jones were shot and killed after answering a knock shortly after midnight. Joshua had been recovering at home from an appendectomy he'd had the day before. Their meeting at the door lasted about ten minutes before gunfire erupted; both boys were struck multiple times. Joshua was shot four times, including wounds to his chest, stomach, back, and the back of his head.

Their deaths were witnessed by Joshua’s mother, Diane Compton, who tried to save him until paramedics arrived. Witnesses said two shooters fled in a car with a third person. Diane Compton described one shooter as a stocky Black man about 5 feet 8 inches tall, with squinted eyes, a wide face, wearing a white cap or bandana and a dark-blue feather-down coat. The Chesapeake Police Department lists the killings as a cold case and no arrests have been made; anyone with information is asked to contact investigators.

Does anyone in the community remember unusual visitors or a car in that neighborhood around April 15, 2009?