Denell N. Brooks, 23, was shot and killed in Norfolk, Virginia, on the night of April 11, 2020. Known as a kind, gentle, and fun-loving young woman, she grew up in Chesapeake, graduated from Bayside High School in Virginia Beach where she played women’s basketball, and later enlisted in the Army National Guard while working at Damco. Denell enjoyed drawing and tattooing and had been involved in JROTC before enlisting.

At about 10:15 p.m. emergency dispatchers received a call about a gunshot victim in the 9500 block of 17th Bay Street in Ocean View. Denell was found with gunshot wounds and taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, where she died later that night. Norfolk Police opened a homicide investigation and identified a 22-year-old woman, India R. Lowe of Canton, Michigan, as a suspect. Lowe was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and was being held in Norfolk City Jail without bond as detectives continued their probe.

If anyone has information about Denell’s death or the events that night, please share what you know.