On the night of April 15, 2009, 16-year-old Mason Jones was spending the night at his best friend Joshua Compton’s house on Rowland Avenue in South Norfolk, Chesapeake. Shortly after midnight two men knocked at the door asking for Joshua; Mason and Joshua stood in the doorway talking with the visitors for about ten minutes. Joshua’s mother, who was elsewhere in the house and heard part of the conversation, said the exchange was interrupted by multiple gunshots.

When the shooting stopped both boys were mortally wounded in the doorway. The assailants fled in a waiting car that contained a third person. An eyewitness description given by Joshua’s mother identified one of the men as a stocky Black male with squinted eyes, a wide face, about 5 feet 8 inches tall, wearing a white cap or bandana and a dark-blue feather-down coat. Chesapeake Police investigated leads but no arrests have been announced, and a reward has been offered for information that leads to an arrest.

Who in the South Norfolk community might have known these teens or seen something that night and can help bring new leads to light?