On the night of August 1, 2019, 18-year-old Tyree Lamar Spady and 15-year-old Erek Wright were shot multiple times outside the Heritage Forest Apartments in Newport News, Virginia. Wright was pronounced dead at the scene; Spady was taken to a local hospital and died a few hours later. Both had recently attended Heritage High School.

Investigators soon focused on a then-15-year-old acquaintance and teammate, Amareon Eley. According to statements in court documents and Eley’s admissions to police, the killings grew out of a dispute over a stolen gun. Eley said he lured Wright to the complex under the pretense of committing a robbery; he implicated another teenager, Anthony Santiago, and claimed Santiago fired the shots. Cell phone records placed Eley’s phone near the scene and investigators say he texted a friend shortly after the shooting telling him to hit both. Eley also admitted taking a BB gun from Spady’s body as he lay bleeding.

Eley was arrested and tried as an adult; after a mistrial in the first jury, a subsequent jury found him guilty on multiple counts related to the killings. Sentencing was scheduled for February 20, 2026. Does anyone have information about Tyree’s last movements that might shed light on what happened that night?