In the early hours of March 17, 2021, a dispute inside a home in the 600 block of Wiley Drive in Norfolk, Virginia, ended with Eddie Moet Jenkins, a 31-year-old Black man, shot and killed just before 1 a.m. Police found Jenkins with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators concluded Jenkins was not the aggressor in the incident.

According to the investigation, an argument between Jenkins and Markell T. Scott escalated. Jenkins reportedly displayed a firearm but did not fire it. The physical fight was interrupted when Curtis E. Copeland Jr. intervened; both Copeland and Scott then produced firearms and shot Jenkins multiple times. Copeland, 19 at the time, was arrested the same day and charged with murder and use of a firearm. Scott, 18, William Gainer, 18, and Raevon K. Gordon, 19, were later charged with conspiracy and use of a firearm; all four were held without bond in the Norfolk City Jail.

Two men later entered guilty pleas and received prison sentences. Anyone who knew Eddie Jenkins or has information about the shooting is asked to come forward.