On the morning of July 15, 2015, 21-year-old Michael Clemons Jr. was found in the 900 block of Holt Street with a gunshot wound. He was taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Clemons lived on the 3000 block of Grandy Avenue; his father said he did not know why his son was on Holt Street that night.

Norfolk Police opened a homicide investigation and within the same day identified 21-year-old Lewis McMiller as a suspect. A warrant was issued and detectives arrested McMiller that evening in the 3600 block of E. Virginia Beach Blvd. He was charged with second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, then later pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter and unlawful use of a firearm.

In December 2016 McMiller was sentenced to 15 years, with nine years and four months suspended; Clemons’s mother, Arvet Johnson, said she was devastated by the outcome and by McMiller’s apparent lack of remorse. Michael’s family remembered him as caring, giving, and bright. Did anyone in Norfolk see or hear anything that night on Holt Street that could still help fill gaps in the timeline?