On the night of February 6, 2015, 26-year-old Terrell Mason was fatally shot while inside a shed on Frederick Douglas Road in Exmore, Virginia. Mason, a father of eight known as Juice, was playing cards with family and friends when gunfire came through a window and one bullet struck him in the chest. He was rushed to Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital but died of his wounds.

The house was targeted again hours later after a vigil for Mason; bullets pierced a bedroom but no one was hurt in the subsequent incidents. No formal charges have been filed in Mason’s death. Former Northampton Commonwealth’s Attorney Bruce Jones publicly accused Aaron Jamarcus Bowens of responsibility, but Bowens was never charged in connection with the killing. The investigation remains open and the community has been left mourning and fearful.