A house party in the 300 block of North Radford Drive, Hopewell, turned deadly in the early hours of Sunday, July 21, 2024. At about 3:35 a.m. police were called for a shooting; officers found two men with gunshot wounds. Damonye Lamont Taylor, 23 and from Hopewell, was pronounced dead at the scene. Dequante Travell Roney, 30 and a Prince George County resident, was taken to a hospital but later died of his injuries.

Officers described a chaotic scene and said the crowd at the gathering became hostile enough that additional law enforcement support was requested. The Hopewell Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Unit opened an inquiry into the double homicide and asked the public for information as detectives worked to reconstruct what happened.

What can readers who were in Hopewell that night or who have information about the party add to help clarify the events that led to these deaths?