On a Saturday evening in June 2016 a pair of linked shootings in Northampton County, Virginia ended with the death of 30-year-old Ronald Graves of Portsmouth. Witnesses at a community gathering on Frederick Douglass Road in Exmore reported seeing a man sit in a car for about half an hour before he suddenly emerged and began shooting; that first scene included many people, including children. The suspect fled and, about 26 miles away near Kiptopeke State Park, deputies found Graves critically injured at a residence on Arlington Road along with a female who had been wounded earlier.

Graves was taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival. The manhunt that followed lasted nearly 12 hours and involved multiple agencies; the suspect, 22-year-old Alexander Hunter Picott-Cleveland of Capeville, was taken into custody at his home the next morning. Subsequent filings say Graves and Picott-Cleveland were cousins and that Picott-Cleveland later received lengthy prison terms related to the shootings.

Does anyone have information about Graves, his movements that evening, or the community gathering on Frederick Douglass Road?