On the night of September 2, 2011, 27-year-old Antone D. Brehon, a Black male, was fatally shot in the 1500 block of Halter Drive in the Bridle Creek apartment complex in Virginia Beach. The shooting followed a robbery at the same location roughly two hours earlier and an ensuing altercation.

Investigators identified and arrested two suspects. Jordan Jamale Austin, 21 at the time, was taken into custody with assistance from the Chesapeake SWAT team and charged with first-degree murder, robbery, aggravated malicious wounding, conspiracy, and multiple counts for use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. Eighteen-year-old George Gay was also charged in connection with Brehon’s murder; he was already detained at the Virginia Beach Correctional Facility on an unrelated robbery charge when the murder charge was filed.

Austin was convicted of first-degree murder, robbery, aggravated malicious wounding, two counts of conspiracy, and three counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and sentenced to 73 years with 30 years suspended, leaving 43 years to serve. Anyone with information about what happened that night or who knew Antone is asked to come forward.