A July 4, 2017 backyard celebration in Hampton turned deadly after shots were fired shortly after 12:30 a.m. Devyn Andre Reed, a 21-year-old Black man, was found in the side yard of a home on the 500 block of Patterson Avenue with a fatal gunshot wound to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene. Four other people — two men ages 19 and 21, another man, and a woman — suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds; some were taken to a local hospital and others went there on their own.

Investigators say several unknown Black males entered the property and began shooting. Reed’s family believes he was ambushed and had been threatened before the attack. Authorities have not identified any suspects, and the Hampton Police Division lists the case as an active homicide investigation. If anyone was at the party or has information about who entered that Patterson Avenue property that night, please come forward.