NEWPORT NEWS 1. Jan. 5-- Phyllis Felicia Vinston (27, Newport News) was gunned down in the 800 block of 35th Street when she ran outside to grab her sons who were playing outside when a shoot-out erupted. Two Newport News boys, one 15 and the other 16, were charged in her death. 2. Jan. 20-- Ajene Tylik Marrow (24, Newport News) was gunned down in the 200 block of Maple Court in the Americana East Mobile Home Park. No suspects have been named and no arrests have been made. Prosecution Murder Trials Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)...
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2013 Homicides in Hampton Roads
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Fugitive charged in Hampton man’s murder
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — Newport News police rounded up a Hampton murder suspect after a standoff at a hotel Saturday. Kwaume Edwards is behind bars for the shooting death of Jonathan...
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2014 Hampton Roads homicides
CHESAPEAKE Feb. 9—Stacey Velder (40, Chesapeake) was found dead in her home in the 1400 block of Foxton Street. Police have not revealed how she died but upgraded her death to a homicide following the results of an autopsy. Police have a person of interest in her death. Feb. 16—Jonathan Quijano (37, Virginia Beach) was killed after being found stabbed in a shopping center in the 1400 block of Kempsville Road. No suspects have been identified in his death. Shootings Horse Racing Joe Lewis Hampton Roads Triple Crown March 15—Justin Waddell (24, Chesapeake) was shot to death in the 1000 block of Chattanooga Street. Waddell's uncle Roger Carpenter...
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Man wanted in May 17 Hampton homicide also sought in Newport News
A man wanted in connection to a fatal shooting in Hampton last month is also wanted by Newport News police for allegedly brandishing a firearm at someone two weeks prior to the homicide. A 26-year-old...
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Newport News man indicted in assault on pregnant woman
NEWPORT NEWS — A Newport News man will be in court Jan. 13 on charges related to attacking a pregnant woman. Kwaume Laray Edwards, 24, was indicted by a grand jury on abduction and strangulation charges in connection to assaulting a 23-year-old woman July 16, according to court records. The victim told police that Edwards attacked her in the 14600 block of Warwick Boulevard. Edwards was arrested in October. "Edwards pulled her hair, bit...
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Man indicted by Hampton grand jury in May homicide
HAMPTON — A Newport News man was recently indicted by a circuit court grand jury in the shooting death of a 28-year-old man, according to the Hampton Circuit Court clerk's office. Kwaume Edwards, 25, is charged in the May 17 homicide of Jonathan Bradley Coles, of Hampton. Coles was found shot in the head in a house on Newport News Avenue....
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Man facing Hampton murder charge was charged in two other homicides
A man arrested by a police tactical team at a Newport News hotel last month on a Hampton murder charge is no stranger to murder prosecutions on the Peninsula. HAMPTON — A man facing a murder charge in Hampton stemming from a May killing is no stranger to murder prosecutions on the Peninsula. Kwaume Luray Edwards, 25, of the 300 block of Circuit Lane in Newport News, is accused of shooting 28-year-old Jonathan Bradley Coles on May 17 in a home on Newport News Avenue, near Shell Road in Hampton. Coles was found lying on his back, dead of a single gunshot wound to the head. Edwards was arrested by a Newport News police tactical team on July 12....
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Fatal Hampton shooting to go before grand jury next month
HAMPTON — The cases of two men charged with gunning down a Hampton man last year will go before a grand jury next month, according to the Hampton Circuit Court clerk's office. Zachary Lamont Batts, of Newport News, and Andre Marquis Monroe, of Hampton, are both charged with...
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Hampton police sharing more information
It came as great news last week when the Hampton Police Division announced it would be making public — on its website — daily lists of criminal incidents in the city. The Daily Press had been asking Hampton for those records for years. We have long had access to lists of adults who were arrested, and we could ask for more information about those. But when a crime occurred with no one arrested, we were pretty much at the mercy of police officials to tell us about the incident. Newport News (Newport News, Virginia) Freedom of Information Laws Criminals...
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A mother describes her grief on the witness stand in Hampton
Phyllis Rodriguez is fighting a battle every day as she lives without her slain son. It's been nearly two years since 19-year-old Bartholomew Kyle Robinson was shot to death on Seldendale Drive in Hampton. He was the youngest of Rodriguez's three children and her only son. Last week, Circuit Court Judge R. Bruce Long, the retired judge substituting on the case, sentenced her son's killer, Tyreek Braxton, to serve 23 years in prison for gunning down Robinson on Dec. 1, 2012. In June, Braxton, 22, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony....
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Jailhouse informant: Newport News man admitted killing
NEWPORT NEWS — A jailhouse informant in a Newport News murder case testified Wednesday that Marcus Tyrone Williams told him at the Newport News City Jail in 2012 that he and another man opened fire on two teenagers four years before. That informant said he and Williams — who knew each other through a family connection — were in the same holding cell at the jail's lockup area for several hours. That's when the informant contends Williams told him that in 2008, he and another man got out of a car at 35th Street...
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Hampton man to plead guilty in two slayings
NORFOLK — A Hampton man is expected to plead guilty on Tuesday to two Hampton slayings. Phillip Michael Bryant is accused in the killing of a former co-conspirator, Sean McCracken, in November 2009 and murdering a rival drug dealer, Johnny Avery, in March 2010. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Bryant and other co-conspirators moved from New York to Hampton in January 2009, and established a drug trafficking ring operating out of the Lincoln Park public housing development off of LaSalle Avenue. Prosecution Judges...
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Faith transcends violence of Hampton slaying
Two families wept and prayed together in a witness room after the guilty verdict was read. For one woman, the June 25 verdict brought justice for her slain son's life. The other woman had to say goodbye to her 20-year-old nephew, Brandon Coles, who had been convicted of killing Michael Lovelace. Lovelace, 25, was gunned down about 1 a.m. on July 27, 2013, in the 600 block of Milford Avenue in Hampton. Witnesses testified that Lovelace, Coles and others were outside when the two men began to...
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Police: Man shot to death in Hampton Saturday morning
HAMPTON— Hampton police are investigating the homicide of a man they said was shot to death inside a residence Saturday morning....
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Fair trial requires hiding defendant's courtroom behavior
A judge, lawyers and sheriff's deputies took pains last week to ensure that jurors deciding a first-degree murder case in Hampton didn't know about the defendant's prior courtroom misbehavior. Kenneth Newkirk, 46, who had fired seven of his previous lawyers, originally had told a judge he was going to act as his own lawyer in the case. But when it came time on Tuesday for Newkirk to enter a plea on the first-degree murder charge against him in the death of 58-year-old Harold Hayslett Jr. in February 2011, Newkirk wouldn't do so. Homicide Judges and Legal Professionals Courts and the Judiciary Hampton (Hampton, Virginia) Newport News (Newport News, Virginia) Sentara Instead, he raised his...
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Suspect in Hampton Memorial Day shooting arrested
Police have arrested a Newport News man in connection with a shooting that sent one man to the hospital on Monday night in Hampton. On Monday, Hampton Police were dispatched to a shooting near the...
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New Hampton trial date set in homicide of woman gunned down in parking lot
HAMPTON — A Newport News man charged with shooting his girlfriend in a Hampton parking lot will stand trial early next year. Brandon Lee-Davis Berkley, 27, is charged with murder and a firearm charge in the July 5, 2013 shooting death of Brieanna Bell. Berkley's jury trial is set for Feb. 23-24 in Hampton...
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Boyce court costs wiped away
When Rex Davis, Newport News' Clerk of Circuit Court, learned Friday morning that David W. Boyce had just been released on bond, an idea came to him while he was walking past an office computer. The Newport News court system imposes court costs on those convicted of crimes. Boyce, for example, owed $43,978 — $31,804 stemming from his original 1991 trial, and four fees, averaging $3,043, for appeals. Defendants Newport News (Newport News, Virginia) Judges Criminals Trials Crimes Lawyers Laws Layoffs and Downsizing Criminal Laws Punishment U.S. Department of Justice It's part of Davis' job as clerk to...
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2 men, 4 teens charged in Hampton carjacking of 70-year-old man, police say
HAMPTON— Two men and four teenagers were arrested and charged in the carjacking of a 70-year-old man earlier this week, according to police. Officers were called to the 2500 block of Shell Road at about 6:27 p.m. Monday in reference to a robbery complaint, police spokeswoman...
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Homicide jury trial set to begin in Hampton
HAMPTON — A jury trial is scheduled to begin Wednesday morning in the shooting death of a man killed last year outside a restaurant. Patrick...
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