On a Monday night in October 2020, a planned confrontation among a group of U.S. Navy sailors at Fiske Street and Aylwin Road in Portsmouth, Virginia, ended with the death of 19-year-old Darius Dontrell Whitted. Whitted, an Aviation Machinist’s Mate Airman who enlisted in November 2018 and was stationed at Naval Air Station Oceana, was shot around 8:30 p.m. on Woodland Street in the Cradock neighborhood. He was taken to a hospital and died within 40 minutes.

Witnesses identified 23-year-old Taiquan Malik Moore as the person who drew a weapon and fired at least ten rounds, one of which struck Whitted. The dispute reportedly began after Moore allegedly verbally disrespected two women and another man confronted him. After the shooting Moore fled the scene. Investigators recovered the firearm after it had been dropped off at an associate’s home in Virginia Beach; Moore told investigators the gun belonged to 20-year-old Stephon Mosley.

Both Moore and Mosley, sailors aboard the USS George H.W. Bush, were arrested; Moore was charged with multiple counts including second-degree murder and firearm offenses, and Mosley was charged with second-degree murder as an accessory. Did anyone see the confrontation that night or have information about how the gun came to be at the Virginia Beach address?