In the early morning hours of July 16, 2023, a large, disorderly crowd outside a 7-Eleven on West Mercury Boulevard in Hampton, Virginia, became the scene of a deadly shooting. Officers arrived about 2:26 a.m. and found 27-year-old Jahleel Angus of Yorktown with a fatal gunshot wound; emergency medical personnel pronounced him deceased at the scene. A second victim, a 29-year-old man from Newport News, was shot and transported himself to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries and later survived.

Investigators say the shooting was not random: the suspect reportedly approached both Angus and the other man in the crowd, opened fire, then fled on foot. The Hampton Police Division Major Crimes Unit appealed to the public as they worked the case. On February 27, 2024, authorities arrested 31-year-old Dwayne Demario Marrow of Newport News; he was taken into custody without incident and charged with murder in Angus’s death, aggravated assault for the other victim, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and two counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony.

Did anyone see the suspect leave the area that morning or have information about the approach toward Angus and the other victim?