Joi Kimitra Brown, 45, was found dead at her home on Wendell Drive in Hampton, Virginia, on the evening of Sunday, June 25, 2023. A neighbor who checked on her after friends and family could not reach her entered an unlocked front door and found Joi in the bedroom with a fatal gunshot wound. Emergency personnel pronounced her dead at the scene around 7:45 p.m. The neighbor also found Joi’s longtime partner, 46-year-old Calvin Lamont Jackson, with apparent scratches and a head wound; he was described as disconnected and in a zombie state, and the incident was immediately suspected to be domestic in nature.

Brown and Jackson had been in a relationship for 19 years and shared a daughter, and friends reported an argument between the couple the night before her death. The investigation continued for months and on February 27, 2024, Calvin Lamont Jackson turned himself in and was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and shooting into an occupied dwelling.

Does anyone who knew Joi or her family have information that could shed light on what happened that night?