On the evening of December 5, 2024, a dispute outside a residence in the 5100 block of Goldsboro Drive in Hampton, Virginia, escalated into a shooting that left 23-year-old Brandon R. Herman of Newport News dead. Police found Herman with life-threatening gunshot wounds just after 7 p.m.; he was taken to a local hospital and later died. A 26-year-old woman was also found nearby in the 5000 block of West Mercury Boulevard with non-life-threatening injuries and treated at the same hospital.

Herman was a graduate of Williamsburg Christian Academy and was remembered for community service and looking out for his younger siblings and cousins. The Hampton Police Division’s Major Crimes Unit treated the incident as an isolated dispute among several people and opened an investigation. In the weeks after the shooting authorities identified two suspects and by January 16, 2025, both had been arrested on charges related to the case.

Did anyone in Hampton see or hear anything that night, or know Brandon’s movements before the shooting?