On March 26, 2021, Deshayla Harris, 28, was killed on the Virginia Beach oceanfront during a night that erupted into multiple shootings. Police say a physical fight escalated into three separate waves of gunfire; Harris was struck on 19th Street during the second wave and investigators believe she was hit by what appears to have been a stray bullet. That night produced two deaths and eight injured; the other person killed was 25-year-old Donovon Lynch, who died in a separate officer-involved shooting.

Authorities arrested three men in connection with the first shooting of the evening — Ahmon Jahree Adams, Nyquez Tyyon Baker, and Devon Maurice Dorsey Jr. — and charged them with offenses including felonious assault and reckless handling of a firearm. Ahmon Adams later pleaded guilty and received a prison sentence for his role in the events that night. No one has been specifically charged with Harris’s death, and the shooter who fired the fatal round has not been identified.

Harris’s family filed a $50 million lawsuit against the City of Virginia Beach alleging negligence by the city and its police department and seeking release of the ballistics report; the city has denied the claims and sought dismissal. If anyone has information about who fired the shot that killed Deshayla Harris or saw events on the oceanfront that night, please share what is known.