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On June 8, 2017, 70-year-old John Larry Nunamaker Sr. was shot dead outside a home on Chippewa Trail in Portsmouth, Virginia. Emergency dispatchers had received a call about a domestic dispute and gunfire; officers found Nunamaker with a fatal gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Surveillance video installed at the home captured the confrontation after Nunamaker, who had an active protective order against him, showed up at his estranged wife Jaye Nunamaker’s residence. Court testimony and the footage presented at a preliminary hearing reportedly show Franklin W. Layne emerging from the house, pointing a gun at Nunamaker, and — after a physical altercation and as Jaye Nunamaker came outside — putting the gun to Nunamaker’s head and firing. A judge found sufficient evidence to send the case to trial and Layne was charged with second-degree murder.

Does anyone have information about relationships, prior incidents, or witness observations from that neighborhood on or before June 8, 2017?