Corenzo Blakely was 21 when he was killed in a drive-by shooting in Chesapeake, Virginia, on January 15, 2017. Police found him on Berkley Avenue with a gunshot wound; he was taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and later died of his injuries. Family described him as quiet and hardworking, generally staying out of trouble.

Investigators focused on a silver Honda seen leaving the area. Gas-station surveillance captured a heated argument between an individual and an associate of Blakely’s shortly before the shooting; during the confrontation the individual’s shirt lifted and a firearm was visible. The same vehicle was seen minutes later driving past Blakely, and he was shot as it passed. Ballistics tied a recovered firearm to casings at the scene, and DNA on the weapon did not eliminate the suspect.

An arrest followed, and in February 2019 the suspect entered an Alford guilty plea to second-degree murder, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and discharging a firearm from an occupied vehicle, with first-degree murder reduced. Did anyone who knew Corenzo or who was in that neighborhood on Berkley Avenue that afternoon see the silver Honda or the confrontation?