Domingo Santiago Davis Jr. was 17 when he was killed by gunfire at a birthday party on the 800 block of West 25th Street in Newport News on the evening of April 6, 2015. Around 10:25 p.m., shots rang out; Davis and 13-year-old Jada Richardson of Hampton were found dead from gunshot wounds. Multiple parked vehicles were struck by bullets during the incident.

Newport News police reported a difficult, uncooperative crowd at the scene and said the shooting was believed linked to gang activity and possibly retaliatory in nature. The department increased curfew enforcement in the city’s southeast neighborhood after the killings.

Investigators later tied the killings to the 36th Street Bang Squad in a federal racketeering case. A Norfolk jury found seven members guilty of racketeering conspiracy; Martin L. Hunt Jr. and Xavier S. Greene were convicted of murder in aid of racketeering and using a firearm resulting in death for their roles in the double homicide and received life sentences. One accused shooter, Steven Harris, was killed seven months after the shooting; another defendant, Deshaun Richardson, was acquitted of the murder counts but convicted on racketeering charges.

Did anyone at that party or living on West 25th Street remember unusual activity that night or in the days before April 6, 2015?