On the evening of June 24, 2023, 28-year-old William Jamal Claiborne was shot in the 1000 block of Langston Park Drive in Hopewell, Virginia. Officers arrived after reports of shots fired around 6:43 PM and found Claiborne with a gunshot wound to his right arm that had traveled into his chest. He was taken to a local hospital and later transferred to Chippenham Hospital, where he died of his injuries.

Investigators identified two suspects: Jamari Antonio Taylor, then 20, of Hopewell, and Kristopher Lorenzo Miller, then 19, of Chesterfield. Both were arrested and initially charged with second-degree murder and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Friends and family called Claiborne BJ.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information about what led to this violence, please come forward.