On a late summer night in Newport News, Virginia, the life of 21-year-old Messiah Jarvis Martin was tragically cut short. On September 3, 2022, Martin, a Black / African American male, went to the Aqueduct Apartments in the Denbigh area of the city to pick up his girlfriend from a birthday party. The gathering, however, would soon become the scene of a fatal encounter.
Shortly after his arrival around 2:00 a.m., Martin was confronted by the party's host, De'Aundre Malique Jarrett. Jarrett
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