Lawrence MacCabe Cowfer, 35, was killed in Portsmouth, Virginia after a domestic dispute on February 19, 2022. Cowfer remained at home with six children and his partner’s niece while his partner, Jessica McBee, returned from a night out with their neighbor Johnny Rodriguez and Rodriguez’s girlfriend, Tiffany Miles. An argument between Cowfer and Rodriguez escalated at the duplex on Mount Vernon Avenue. Emergency crews pronounced Cowfer dead at the scene; his children witnessed the shooting.

Rodriguez fled the scene after the shooting but later turned himself in and was charged with first-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a murder, and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. If anyone knew Lawrence, his family, or saw activity around the 600 block of Mount Vernon Avenue that night, please share what was seen or heard.