Delvon Depree Freeman, 37, was shot and killed on July 4, 2019, at a cookout in the 600 block of 36th Street in Newport News, Virginia. According to accounts relayed by his mother, the confrontation began after Freeman did not greet another man, Philip Andre Ross, when Ross arrived at the gathering. Freeman tried to leave to avoid a fight, but was shot before he could get away.

A friend drove Freeman to a local hospital, where he died later that night. Freeman was remembered by family as a loving father of four, a former Newport News Public School System student and a carpenter. The next day police arrested 32-year-old Philip Andre Ross and charged him with second-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and discharging a firearm within an occupied dwelling.

Does anyone who was at that cookout or who knew Delvon have more information about what happened that evening?