On the evening of May 10, 2018, Jacqueline Perry, 54, was fatally shot while sitting in the passenger seat of a car in Petersburg, Virginia. She had accompanied her friend Everette Tucker to a house on South Dunlop Street to buy cigarettes. A dispute over a parking spot escalated after Tucker parked across the street and a woman asked him to move; Tucker refused and a verbal altercation followed.

Derrick Gerard Tucker, Jr. became involved in the argument and fired a gun, striking Perry in the head. Everette Tucker drove her to a hospital, where she later died. Derrick Tucker, Jr. was arrested and, after a police interview in which he gave conflicting accounts about firing a cap gun and firing into the air, was convicted by a jury on multiple charges including first-degree murder, malicious wounding, shooting into an occupied vehicle, and two counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony.

The conviction was later challenged on appeal with an argument that the jury should have been instructed on voluntary manslaughter, but the original verdict was upheld. Does anyone have additional details about the events on South Dunlop Street that night or about Jacqueline Perry’s life in Petersburg?