On the evening of July 12, 2019, two damaged vehicles were found on the 6000 block of College Drive in Suffolk, Virginia. What first looked like a multi-vehicle crash was later determined to be a shooting scene. Nineteen-year-old Sidney Watson was found dead at the scene from a gunshot wound. A 19-year-old passenger in Watson’s vehicle, Jaylon Marquis Hamilton, was also shot; his wounds were not life-threatening and he was taken to hospital and later recovered.

The Suffolk Police Department initially had no suspect as it opened a homicide investigation into the roadway shooting. On September 1, 2020, officers arrested 19-year-old Shawn Jermaine Lewis, Jr., of Chesapeake. He was indicted on more than 30 felony counts, including first-degree murder in Watson’s death, aggravated malicious wounding for Hamilton’s injuries, multiple counts of shooting at an occupied vehicle and shooting from a vehicle, firearm use in the commission of a felony, and several counts related to participating in a gang-related crime.

Did anyone in the Suffolk area witness the crash or the shooting that night, or have information about what led up to it?