On the afternoon of November 18, 2012, 13-year-old Lamonee Johnson-Chisholm was walking with a friend near a convenience store at 28th Street and Roanoke Avenue in Newport News, Virginia, when a single gunshot struck him in the back. His 15-year-old friend was shot in the arm and survived.

A suspect, 15-year-old Kashawn Hines, was arrested on the day of Lamonee’s funeral. A Facebook message to Lamonee’s account apologizing and saying the shooting was unintentional was part of the evidence; Hines reportedly told others and police that he didn’t mean to kill him. At trial Hines maintained someone else accessed his Facebook and that he had been at home in Norfolk; a jury convicted him of first-degree murder, malicious wounding, and two firearm charges, and he was sentenced to 46 years in prison. Lamonee’s mother, Quintonia Chisholm, testified about the lasting void his death created.

Does anyone have memories of Lamonee or information about that day that could shed more light on what happened?