In the early morning of October 26, 2023, officers responded around 8:00 a.m. to the 6900 block of Bonnot Drive in Norfolk and found 20-year-old Lamarion O. Budd, a Black male, with a life-threatening gunshot wound. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene and the case was opened as a homicide.

Budd’s death came amid a particularly violent 24-hour span for the East Tanners Creek neighborhood: less than a day later another homicide occurred on the same block, this time a 16-year-old male. Norfolk’s then-Police Chief Mark Talbot called the back-to-back killings gravely disturbing. Authorities have not publicly identified suspects or made arrests and have not said whether the two incidents are related.

Anyone with information about the shooting on Bonnot Drive is asked to contact Norfolk police.