NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — A year ago Thursday, three people were gunned down in a Newport News house. 

Police have not arrested anyone for the murders. The families reached out only to 10 On Your Side, wanting to share their frustration, as it has been a year since the triple homicide, and they want answers.  

“It’s a narcotics situation that led to an argument and gunfire,” Newport News Police Chief Steve Drew said a year ago.

Three people were killed, and the owner of the house, who was there when it happened, has not been charged. The families say that frustrates them too, as they want to know more about her account of what happened.  

10 On Your Side reached out to Newport News Police, but was told that it is part of the on-going investigation.  

It was Aug. 8 of last year when Derek Jones was shot and killed in a Newport News home on Stallings Court. A year later, his 14-year-old daughter, Ariana Jones, is still scarred from that history.

“I know my dad wasn’t always the best person,” she said. “He wasn’t, but he always tried to be there. I think he tried his best.” 

Ariana wears a shirt with photos of him in his memory, and she wears his ashes around her neck.

“He didn’t deserve to die,” Ariana said with tears flowing down her cheeks. “He didn’t do something that bad, and the people that were with him didn’t deserve to die either.” 

A year ago, Monroe McGilvary died in that same home.

“He was just a character, but, you know, everyone loved him,” said McGilvary’s daughter, Tamecia Ferguson. “You know, he was a people person. He was a good man. He really was a good guy.” 

The family photos show a tight family, with McGilvary wearing the Dallas Cowboys star on his hat. 

“My dad was my best friend,” said McGilvary’s son, Tevaris Bradby. “I look like my dad, I walk like my dad, I talk like my dad, that’s my daddy.” 

The loss is a heavy burden to bear for Monroe’s other son Travis.

“When I go to visit my grandparents, they talk about him every day as soon as you walk in their house,” he said. “You see the pillow with his face on it.  To me, I just want justice.” 

They want justice after a full year and no arrests, and they say they have no answers — only questions. 

“It’s frustrating to me that my children have been put into intensive therapy where they have to have counselors at school and at home, and they got to go to outpatient therapy,” said Jennifer Jones Futrell, Derek Jones’ former wife and Ariana’s mother. “It’s frustrating that I have to go through all this with my children and watch them suffer.” 

Monroe’s sister, Tina Luster, remembers a year ago when a detective paid a visit.

“I sat down, and she told me he got killed, and it still haunts me to this day,” Luster said with tears flowing. “It’s messed me all up.” 

Jones’ daughter, Ariana, just wants her father.

“It wasn’t their time to go,” she said. “God didn’t say it was their time to go. I feel there should be justice for them. … Everyone should be trying their hardest to find out who it is who killed them and to get justice for them.” 

A third person killed in the house one year ago tomorrow was 61-year-old Alvin Holiday of Williamsburg.  

His family preferred not to comment at this time.   

The sentiment from the two families who met with 10 On Your Side was that it’s frustrating knowing it’s been a year, and the person, or persons, who killed these three men are still free and still walking the streets. 

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