In the minutes before dawn on April 15, 2012, Bernard Antonio Paulin, 29, was found in the grass in the 4300 block of Marshall Avenue in Newport News with a gunshot wound to the head. The shooting was reported shortly before 1:00 a.m.; Paulin was taken to a hospital but was pronounced dead at 1:41 a.m.

By that summer the killing was still being treated as unsolved and a public appeal circulated asking for information. Notices after his death described him as living in Newport News and formerly of Tifton, Georgia, with funeral services set for April 28, 2012, at The Christ Church in Tifton. If anyone knew Bernard, his movements that night, or saw activity near Marshall Avenue around 1:00 a.m., please share what might help investigators.