On the evening of November 23, 2024, a dispute in a Manassas parking lot escalated into fatal gunfire. Forty-five-year-old Horace Roy Johnson was found in the 8000 block of Stream Walk Lane at about 9:09 p.m. suffering from multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators report Johnson had been involved in a physical altercation with another man who produced a firearm and shot him. Spent shell casings and a distinctive pair of red glasses were recovered at the scene; police say those items helped identify a suspect. The shooting was not treated as random, because the two men were known to each other.

A 38-year-old man was arrested the morning after the shooting in the Manassas area and charged in connection with the killing. If anyone witnessed the altercation in the Stream Walk Lane parking area or has information about the events that led to this shooting, please come forward.