On April 15, 2009, 16-year-old Mason Walker Jones was fatally shot in the doorway of a home on Roland Avenue in Chesapeake, Virginia while spending the night with his 17-year-old friend Joshua Compton. The two boys had been talking with two men at the door for about ten minutes shortly after midnight when multiple gunshots rang out. Both teenagers were killed; the suspects fled and were seen getting into a red vehicle with a third person.

Joshua’s mother, who was elsewhere in the house, heard the conversation and then witnessed the shooting but was unable to identify the shooters. One suspect was described as a stocky Black man about 5 feet 8 inches with a wide face and squinted eyes, wearing a white cap or bandana and a dark-blue feather-down coat.

Fifteen years later the double homicide remains unsolved, no arrests have been announced, and a reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest. If anyone knew Mason or has information about who was at the Compton home that night, please share what is known with Chesapeake Police.