On Tuesday, July 18, 2023, 21-year-old Ashoneya Tarashnik Rashayla Williams and her 22-year-old boyfriend, Kyonne Edwards, were found fatally shot in their apartment at the Jersey Park Apartments in Smithfield, Virginia. Authorities described the incident as the town’s first known double homicide. Both families remember them as young people with close family ties — Ashoneya raised in Fairfax and remembered for a final hug and wave hours before she was killed, and Kyonne recalled for looking out for elderly neighbors.

The Smithfield Police Department, assisted by other agencies, executed several search warrants and interviewed numerous people, but investigators faced setbacks when security cameras at the complex were found not to have been recording the night of the shootings. More than a year after the deaths, the case remained unsolved; no arrests or suspects had been publicly identified. The double homicide came amid an increase in fatal shootings in Isle of Wight County in 2023, which police said they do not believe are connected.

If anyone knew Ashoneya or Kyonne, witnessed anything at Jersey Park Apartments that night, or has information that could help, please come forward to investigators.