On the night of September 12, 2024, a shooting on East Washington Street near White Marsh Road in Suffolk, Virginia left five people shot. Multiple 911 calls came in about gunfire at about 11:25 p.m.; officers found victims beside a local business. Thirty-year-old Demonte Lamont Tillery, a Black man who had been taken to a hospital, died of his injuries. Another man, 37-year-old William Eugene Goodman Jr., was pronounced dead at the scene. Three other people — two men and a woman — were taken to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening wounds.

Tillery, a father of five, had recently begun working for Goodman’s dump truck company; reports say the victims were together that night attempting to fix a dump truck. Police described the investigation as very active, collecting shell casings and reviewing video, but had not identified suspects or made arrests as of mid-September. A candlelight vigil was held for Tillery and Goodman; the motive and relationships among those involved remained unclear.

If anyone was in the 800 block of East Washington Street that night or has information about the shooting, please come forward to help the investigation.