On the evening of November 6, 2024, 33-year-old Jonathon Demarus Powell was shot and killed at the Admiral Pointe Apartments on River Road in Newport News, Virginia. Police responded to reports of gunfire around 10:30 p.m.; officers found Powell with an apparent fatal gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Powell, born in Alabama on August 16, 1991, worked as a sandblaster at the local shipyard and was a father to two sons, Brayden and John T. Powell III. Detectives canvassed the apartment complex and collected forensic evidence, but no motive or person of interest has been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced.

Anyone who was in the Admiral Pointe Apartments area that night or who knew Powell and might have relevant information is asked to come forward.