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Family, friends remember Hampton New Year’s Eve homicide one year later

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Family and friends of the two Hampton men killed last year on New Years Eve gathered tonight for a vigil tonight to remember the victims.

Twenty-year-old Kenneth Jake Wilson and Donivan Walker Junior were at Woodland Skate Park in Hampton when they got into an altercation with another teen.

Witnesses say the teen left on a bike and returned with a gun. He shot Walker and Wilson. Walker died at the scene and Wilson died later in the hospital.

Police have charged 16-year-old Jordyn Charity with their murder.

Lindsay Tibbett, girlfriend of Wilson, says she hopes this vigil will help to bring in 2015 on a more positive note considering last year was spent mourning.

On November 30, 2017 Charity was sentenced to a total of 168 years in prison.