On April 2, 2024, 30-year-old Yolanda Jenise Jackson was fatally wounded in Portsmouth, Virginia, during an incident that involved both a shooting and a subsequent car crash on Portsmouth Boulevard. Officers found Jackson with life-threatening injuries and she died after being taken to a hospital. Witnesses reported hearing a barrage of gunshots, with one neighbor estimating about 30 shots and the sound of at least two different firearms.

Family remember Jackson as a caring, loving woman who often babysat neighborhood children though she had none of her own. Her mother came to the scene and the family remains in deep grief. The Portsmouth Police Department opened a homicide investigation and has named Antonie Danielle Speight as a person of interest; authorities have asked the public for help locating Speight. Motive and the precise sequence of events leading to the shooting and crash have not been released, and no arrests have been announced.

If anyone has information about what happened on Portsmouth Boulevard that night or about Antonie Danielle Speight’s whereabouts, please share it with Portsmouth police.