A late-night shooting in Norfolk ended the life of 20-year-old James Nakia Henderson Jr. in the early hours of November 4, 2017. The exchange of gunfire occurred around 3 a.m. in the 700 block of Washington Avenue; Henderson was pronounced dead at the scene and two other men suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Henderson was originally from Chicago and served in the U.S. Navy as an Aviation Boatswain’s Mate Airman. He enlisted in December 2015 and was assigned to the carrier Gerald R. Ford in April 2016. The Norfolk Police Department investigated and arrested 26-year-old Aviation Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class Donald Bowman, who was treated for a gunshot wound after the incident and later charged with second-degree murder, malicious wounding, and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. No motive has been publicly disclosed.

If anyone witnessed the shooting on Washington Avenue that night or has information about what led to the exchange of gunfire, please come forward.