In the pre-dawn hours of October 19, 2019, 40-year-old Gregory Eugene Blythe of Newport News was found inside a vehicle in the 1100 block of West Pembroke Avenue in Hampton with fatal gunshot wounds. Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene at about 4:15 a.m. Blythe was a husband and father to five children; his death was described as sudden and violent and deeply affected his family and community.

Hampton Police Division detectives moved quickly in the investigation. Within weeks they identified two suspects and obtained warrants charging 27-year-old Linwood Ellerbee and 27-year-old Tavon Maurice Wright, both of Hampton, with murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and shooting into an occupied vehicle. Wright was arrested in Jacksonville, Florida, on December 15, 2019; Ellerbee was arrested in Fairfax, Virginia, on December 31, 2019. Both were held pending extradition to Hampton to face the charges.

Did anyone in the Hampton or Newport News area have information about Blythe, the vehicle he was in, or movements that night?