Shortly after 3:30 a.m. on February 5, 2023, Calvin Joyner, 51, and his twin brother Alvin were shot and killed in Portsmouth, Virginia, on Nashville Avenue in the Prentis Park neighborhood. The brothers and a 61-year-old female companion were in Alvin’s SUV when they gave a ride to two men identified as Joseph Cross and Shamoine Briggs. According to the surviving passenger, Cross produced a firearm and demanded money; after the woman handed over $22, Cross opened fire and all three occupants were shot.

The woman survived by pretending to be dead and later communicated to police via a whiteboard because jaw injuries left her unable to speak. Cross and Briggs were arrested four days after the shooting and charged with offenses including first-degree murder, malicious wounding, robbery, carjacking, and arson; investigators say Cross set the SUV on fire and guns and suspected heroin were found in Briggs’ apartment. Cross reportedly confessed to the shootings during the investigation but offered a different account at trial, while the surviving victim maintained that Cross demanded money before shooting.

Did anyone in the Prentis Park area see that SUV or those men in the early hours of February 5, 2023?