On the evening of March 27, 2024, a domestic argument in a Norfolk, Virginia apartment ended when 35-year-old Jessica Ayers was shot and killed at her home in the 600 block of Dudley Avenue. Ayers lived there with her child, her boyfriend Quinton Dwyan Wade, and his two children. An argument began in the living room while the children played video games; Ayers moved her child into a shared bedroom and closed the door. Wade followed and continued the argument from the other side of the door. When Ayers opened the door, Wade was holding a gun. Startled, she fell backward and reached for a handgun she kept under one of the children’s beds but was shot once in the abdomen before she could get to it. Emergency services took her to a hospital, where she later died.

The next day Quinton D. Wade, then 37 years old, turned himself in and was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and use of a firearm. If anyone knew Jessica, her household, or witnessed the events that night, please share what can help the investigation.