James Gerard White, 32, of Hampton, Virginia, was shot and killed on the afternoon of August 21, 2016, inside an apartment at the Warwick Village Apartments on Nelson Drive in Newport News. White, an employee of Newport News Shipbuilding and a married father of two, was visiting 27-year-old Rebecca Damron when her former boyfriend, 34-year-old Lonnell Deandre Lilly III, entered the apartment with a key. An argument turned violent; Lilly produced a firearm and fired multiple shots. White died at the scene and Damron was seriously wounded and hospitalized. Lilly fled in Damron’s vehicle but was arrested later that same day by Norfolk police and handed over to Newport News authorities.

Prosecutors said the attack grew out of Lilly’s obsession with and desire to control Damron. He was charged with first-degree murder, aggravated malicious wounding, burglary, grand larceny, and two counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony. At trial a jury convicted Lilly on all counts and recommended a sentence of 81 years in prison.

Does anyone have additional details about White’s life in Hampton or about the community’s response to this shooting?