Rasheem Oshea Hairston was 24 when he was shot and killed in Martinsville, Virginia during the early hours of New Year’s Day 2019. He lived in Eden, North Carolina and had been at a New Year’s Eve party on Clift Street when an argument with another man escalated into gunfire about 1:20 AM. Officers who responded to a shots-fired call found Hairston with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

A second man, 23-year-old Devontae Lee Massey, arrived at a local hospital with non-life-threatening gunshot injuries. Investigators say Massey and Hairston had a pre-existing conflict and that witnesses observed Massey acting agitated and having an obvious problem with Hairston. The probe found that shots were fired from the street into the house where the party was taking place. Massey was arrested after hospital treatment and charged with second-degree murder and multiple firearm offenses.

Who knew Rasheem or was at the Clift Street party and can share what happened that night?