On Sunday afternoon, May 29, 2016, Norfolk police and paramedics responded to a 2:43 p.m. dispatch for a possible gunshot victim in the 800 block of Johnson Avenue in the Olde Huntersville neighborhood. Officers found 41-year-old Kenneth Britt with an apparent gunshot wound; Britt was pronounced dead at the scene. The shooting added to a reported rise in violent crime in that neighborhood.

Investigators identified a suspect and on June 1, 2016, 40-year-old Shelton Givens of Norfolk was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. He was held without bond in the Norfolk City Jail. At trial Givens asserted self-defense, but a jury convicted him of second-degree murder and the firearm charge; those convictions were later appealed and the verdicts were affirmed by the Court of Appeals of Virginia in February 2020.

If anyone knew Kenneth Britt, his routines, or saw activity around Johnson Avenue on May 29, 2016, information could still help clarify what happened that afternoon.