On the evening of August 14, 2024, a shooting at Community Beach Park in Norfolk, Virginia, ended the life of 20-year-old Andrew F. Saafi Jr. Norfolk police were called to the park at 700 E. Ocean View Avenue around 6:20 p.m. After reports of a shooting, officers found that Saafi had already been taken to a local hospital by other means with a life-threatening gunshot wound; he later died at the hospital.

Saafi’s family held a viewing on August 28, 2024, and a celebration of his life the next day at Metropolitan Funeral Service in Norfolk. The Norfolk Police Department investigated the homicide and urged anyone with information to come forward. On January 10, 2025, police arrested 20-year-old Zion K. Holmes of Virginia Beach in connection with the shooting; he was charged with second-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and robbery, and was being held without bond in the Norfolk City Jail as legal proceedings continued.

If anyone witnessed the shooting at Community Beach Park or has information about what happened that evening, please share what is known.