On October 11, 2018, 27-year-old Raghib Ismail Brooks of Hampton was shot and killed on the 700 block of Gloucester Drive in Newport News, Virginia. Police were called about 1:30 p.m.; Brooks was found with fatal gunshot wounds. The shooting prompted a brief lockdown at nearby Heritage High School, less than half a mile away.

Brooks, known to some as Heb, was a father to a son and a daughter and remembered by family and friends as witty, caring, and free-spirited. The case remained under investigation for more than two years before a major development in April 2021. On April 19, 2021, Newport News police arrested 32-year-old Antione Harris of Richmond and charged him with first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony in connection with Brooks’s death.

If anyone in Newport News or Hampton has information about what happened that afternoon on Gloucester Drive, please come forward.