Late on Saturday night, March 9, 2019, reports of gunfire drew officers to the 2600 block of Ballentine Boulevard in Norfolk. Responding units arrived just before 11 p.m. and found Lorenzo Antwoine Roberts, 40, outside with life-threatening gunshot wounds. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene. The shooting occurred near the shelter Outreach for Christ, a detail that community members said made the violence feel especially senseless.

Roberts’ mother told reporters he had been out celebrating his birthday; she and others in the neighborhood were left asking who would do this and why. Police asked anyone with information to contact the Norfolk Crime Line or submit tips through the P3 Tips app. Four days after the killing authorities announced an arrest: Eugene Johnson Jr., 43, of Norfolk, was charged with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and was arrested at Miami International Airport after a multi-jurisdictional fugitive investigation. Court records cited by local reporting later showed those charges were nolle prossed on July 25. What can readers add about Roberts, his movements that night, or anyone who might have witnessed the shooting?