Police search for suspect in fatal shooting in Hampton

HAMPTON, Va. (WAVY) — Hampton police are searching to identify the suspect in a fatal shooting on Saturday.

Around 1:30 a.m., officers heard gunshots while patrolling in the 8500 block of Orcutt Avenue. Officers found a man in the road and he was pronounced deceased at the scene.

Police identified the victim as 20-year-old Amariyon Wilson of Hampton.

Nicole Hines, a nearby homeowner, said the shooting jolted her out of her sleep for a moment.

“I heard what sounded like a rock hit my window,” Hines said.

But then when officers arrived at her home moments later, she walked outside and saw one window shattered and her bedroom window with a bullet hole in it.

She told 10 On Your Side her initial reaction was shock, but now she’s just grateful.

“Grateful that we were protected and that it did not enter our home,” Hines said. “I take care of my older parents my dad’s bedroom is right next to mine and he sleeps with his head at the window so it’s just the grace of god that it did not enter our home.”

And she wasn’t the only neighbor to have their home damaged.

A man, who declined an interview, showed 10 On Your Side a bullet hole on the side of his home right by the bedroom where he was when the bullets rang out.

Hines said the neighborhood wasn’t violent until recently.

“So we’ve lived here about 20 years, never had any issues until maybe the last five years,” Hines said. “Probably like that, pre-COVID right around COVID, we could start hearing more gunfire.”

That gunfire is one of the reasons she now has security cameras.

But after this homicide, she’s looking to ramp up her home’s security system.

But make no mistake, she said she’s not scared.

“I’m God’s child,” Hines said. “Like, he got me. Our house is protected. Fear no, but it does allow me to be more cognitive, to put other resources in place to make sure that we’re protected.”

At this time the motive and circumstance surrounding this incident remain under investigation by detectives from the Major Crimes Unit. No suspect information is available.