Jamaal Calhoun, 31, was shot to death on November 13, 2014, inside the Oak Hill, West Virginia, home of Robert I. Brown Jr. Brown and Calhoun were described as friends, but prosecutors say the shooting grew out of an earlier dispute and Brown believed Calhoun had threatened him. Court records state Brown fired eleven .357-caliber rounds at Calhoun while Calhoun was seated on a couch, then retrieved a 12-gauge shotgun and fired a slug into the back of Calhoun’s head.

Brown was ultimately indicted for second-degree murder. He entered an Alford/Kennedy guilty plea to that charge in February 2017 and was sentenced to the maximum forty-year term on March 31, 2017. He continued to challenge the conviction and sought to introduce new statements and pursue exhumation and independent testing, but courts denied those motions; the state supreme court affirmed those rulings in July 2025.

Did anyone know Jamaal Calhoun or have information about his relationships in Oak Hill before November 2014?