Stanley Cornell Reaves was a 33-year-old Norfolk Police Department officer killed on the evening of October 28, 2005, after being flagged down near West 27th Street and DeBree Avenue. Responding to a report of a suspicious person, Officer Reaves exited his patrol car to investigate when a man produced a handgun and opened fire. He was transported to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital and died of his wounds. He had served one year with Norfolk after 11 years with the Baltimore City Police Department and left a wife and two young children.

The investigation identified 29-year-old Thomas Alexander Porter as the shooter. Porter fled the state but was arrested in White Plains, New York, on November 2, 2005, and charged with capital murder of a police officer, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and grand larceny. A jury found him guilty on March 7, 2007, and he received a death sentence plus additional years for the other counts; appeals followed.

Did anyone in the area that night see the interaction near West 27th and DeBree?