On the night of April 15, 2009, 17-year-old Joshua Gunther Compton was shot to death at his home on Rowland Avenue in the South Norfolk section of Chesapeake, Virginia. Joshua and his 16-year-old friend Mason Jones had been at the house during spring break when two men knocked and spoke with them at the front door for about ten minutes. Joshua’s mother, Diane Compton, was in the living room and heard the conversation before gunfire suddenly erupted.

Both teenagers were struck multiple times in the doorway. Joshua was hit four times — in the chest, stomach, back, and the back of his head — and his mother attempted to help him before paramedics arrived. The shooters fled in a car where a third person was waiting; authorities believe three people were involved. Diane Compton provided a description of one suspect as a stocky Black man about 5 feet 8 inches tall, with a wide face, squinted eyes, wearing a white cap or bandana and a dark-blue feather-down coat.

Despite an immediate investigation, no arrests have been announced and the case remains unsolved. Does anyone have information about that night or remember seeing a dark-blue coat or a car leaving Rowland Avenue around midnight on April 15, 2009?