A party on Highland Avenue in Portsmouth, Virginia, ended in gunfire on the night of December 2, 2012. A dispute over a dice game escalated, and 23-year-old Marquis S. Terry, a Black male, was shot five times. He was taken to a nearby hospital and died of his wounds on December 3, 2012.

Police identified 21-year-old Calvin Alexander-Lamont Kitt as the primary suspect. Kitt and others had been escorted out after the fight, and Kitt later returned to the house and opened fire, wounding Marquis and another man, Darrius Cuffee, who survived and was treated and released. Kitt was arrested, convicted by a jury of first-degree murder and related charges, and in January 2013 received a 48-year prison sentence.

Marquis’s death deeply affected his family; two of his brothers, Emmanuel Terry and Cori Terry, were later killed in separate incidents in 2014 and 2017. Does anyone have memories of Marquis or information about that night that could add to the record?