On the late afternoon of March 19, 2015, gunfire at The Reserve at Deer Run apartment complex off Jefferson Avenue in Newport News, Virginia, left two young men dead. Adrian B. Holiday, 26, was found in the driver’s seat of a white SUV with a gunshot wound to his back shoulder. Jeremy Taylor, 23, was found nearby with multiple gunshot wounds to his abdomen and died shortly after at a local hospital.
Holiday, a lifelong Newport News resident and Denbigh High School graduate, served five years in the U.S. Army Reserves, including a tour in Afghanistan. Known as A-Boogie, he was engaged to be married and remembered by family and friends for his warm personality. Investigators say body camera audio captured Taylor’s dying identification of Tevin Johnson as the shooter, Johnson’s DNA was found on a jacket in the SUV, and cell phone records placed him at the scene. Prosecutors described the incident as a robbery gone wrong.
Tevin Lamall Johnson was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony; he testified at trial that he had gone to buy marijuana and fled after hearing gunshots. The jury returned guilty verdicts and Johnson received two life terms in prison.
Did anyone in the Newport News area have contact with either victim around March 19, 2015, or information about the events that afternoon?