Joshua Israel Psalms Arrington was 18 when he was shot and killed on the evening of July 4, 2021, in Arlington Park, Hopewell, Virginia. A recent Hopewell High School graduate headed for Chowan University, he was known to family and friends as Hammer Head and enjoyed recording music with friends.

Witnesses reported shots fired and a large disturbance around 8:30 PM. Officers arriving on scene found several vehicles damaged by gunfire and Joshua unresponsive in the roadway with life-threatening gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Hopewell Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division opened a homicide investigation and his body was sent to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for autopsy.

If anyone has information that could help the investigation or knew Joshua, please share what you know.