Jayln Devon Harris was 19 when he died after being shot during a car crash outside the Ocean Walk Apartments on 16th Street in Virginia Beach. The incident occurred on February 13, 2018: officers found Harris with a gunshot wound inside a single vehicle that had struck a utility pole. He was taken to a hospital and later died of his injuries.

Court documents say Harris, an aspiring musician known as JayLotto and a young father, had arranged to buy 28 grams of marijuana from Andre Jeru Bernard Bigby. The driver later told police Harris planned to snatch the drugs and flee. After meeting Bigby and returning to the car, Bigby allegedly approached the vehicle, threatened the occupants while implying he had a gun, and then a shot was fired into the car, striking Harris in the torso.

Several arrests followed: Henry Alexander Smith III was charged with accessory after the fact, Andre Jeru Bernard Bigby was charged with second-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm, and Joshua Rucker was charged with conspiracy to sell marijuana. Harris’s mother, Lovey Vawters, disputed the theft narrative and said her son was not a thief.

Did anyone in the Virginia Beach area see or hear anything that night that could clarify what happened before the shooting?