On the evening of May 21, 2006, 25-year-old Norfolk Police Department officer Seneca Bailey Darden was killed in a mistaken-identity shooting in the Young Terrace housing development on Nicholson Street. Darden, a four-year veteran working a plainclothes burglary detail in another part of the city, responded to a separate call for backup about a shooting. He arrived in a white T-shirt and jeans and helped take a man into custody at gunpoint alongside two uniformed officers.

Amid a large, agitated crowd and heightened tension after officers had already found a wounded man and learned of a possible second victim inside a nearby home, Officer Gordon Barry arrived, saw Darden with a handgun and ordered him to drop the weapon. When Darden did not immediately comply, Barry fired, striking Darden multiple times. Darden was taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and died of his injuries. Virginia State Police and other reviews later characterized the shooting as a tragic accident; no arrests were made.

Does anyone have information about Seneca Bailey Darden, his assignment that night, or the events at Young Terrace that could shed more light on how the misidentification happened?