On the evening of April 25, 2014, in the Denbigh area of Newport News, Vidal Lamont Sills, a 41-year-old Black man, was killed while visiting his ex-girlfriend and their daughter. Sills had brought food to the apartment building in the 13000 block of Sojourner Court. An argument between Sills and another man, 24-year-old Joshua Johnson Caffey, escalated and witnesses say Caffey produced a firearm and shot Sills multiple times. Sills was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after 10:20 p.m.

Two days later police located and arrested Joshua Johnson Caffey in a car on Colony Road. He was charged with first-degree murder and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and a Newport News grand jury returned an indictment. The case was set for trial at the Newport News Circuit Court.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or has information about the night of April 25, 2014, please come forward.