PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — A family’s quest for justice continues in Portsmouth after a Manor High School student was shot and killed.
It’s been a little more than two weeks since four people were shot on Greenway Court. Two of those four people did not survive.
One of the victims was 18-year-old Ameerah Green, a senior at Manor High School. Portsmouth police have a person of interest in the shooting and Green’s family told 10 On Your Side that person is her own mother.
“I’m here to ask for justice,” Andrea Daughtry told 10 On Your Side. “My grand-niece Ameerah Green was shot and killed two weeks ago at the front door of her own home trying to get in her house.”
Daughtry and her sister, Ameerah’s grandmother, had legal custody of the girl since she was four years old. Recently, Green was staying with her mother, 37-year-old Holly Berry, in an apartment on Greenway Court.
“I believe that she was a targeted interest in a complicated situation,” Daughtry said.
Daughtry said there was an argument between several people the night of Tuesday, Jan. 9, with several guns involved. She says her grand-niece was shot in the head four times.
“Two people have died, three people are on the loose,” Daughtry said.
Since that night, Green’s mother, Holly Berry, who police named as a person of interest, has gone off the grid and Daughtry said she’s gone back and forth with police.
“They won’t tell me what happened because they claim they can’t tell me what happened,” Daughtry said. “That’s fine. I know what happened. I want to know why it happened and I want to know who killed her.”
Green’s family is offering a $1,000 reward for any information on who killed the teen and where they might be.
Daughtry told 10 On Your Side Green was planning to buy a car and go into real estate after her graduation.
“To the person who did this to her, I will never stop looking for you,” Daughtry said.
Anyone with information about this crime is urged to call the Portsmouth Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division at 757-393-8536 or to submit an anonymous tip through the Portsmouth Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP. Tips can also be submitted through the p3tips app.