Young v. City of Norfolk

By Judge Everett a. Martin, Jr.

This is the fifth and, perhaps, final act in a legal drama that began the night of March 3, 1990, when the plaintiff and defendants George Hoggard and William Everett, Norfolk police detectives, met in a parking lot at the old Met Park. Hoggard and Everett apparently observed Arthur Knight and Lionell Avant tampering with an automobile in the parking lot and attempted to apprehend them. Knight and Avant fled and the detectives gave chase. What was said and done immediately thereafter has been the subject of some controversy. The plaintiff claims Hoggard shot at…