On the evening of July 25, 2019, 29-year-old Markee Lavell Turner was sitting in a parked car on North Military Highway in Norfolk, Virginia, when someone opened fire. Turner was pronounced dead at the scene; his 23-year-old brother, Tamian Davis, also suffered gunshot wounds, was taken to a hospital, and later died from his injuries.

Norfolk police arrested two men in connection with the double homicide on September 26, 2019. Thirty-four-year-old Alphonzo L. Smith was charged with two counts of second-degree murder, robbery, and using a firearm in the commission of a felony. Twenty-three-year-old Laquann C. Pooler was charged as an accessory after the fact. Both were held without bond in the Norfolk City Jail.

Smith’s case proceeded to trial and a jury convicted him on first-degree murder charges along with the firearm and robbery counts; Smith later appealed and the Court of Appeals of Virginia issued a memorandum opinion on October 24, 2023. The outcome of Pooler’s case is less clearly documented. Does anyone have additional information about Tamian Davis or Markee Turner’s life, or about the events that night?