NORFOLK, Va. – Today, four men from Greensboro, North Carolina, received life sentences for their involvement in a murder-for-hire conspiracy that led to the death of 59-year-old Lillian Bond, a Norfolk resident, on April 19, 2016.
Court records and trial evidence showed that Jaquate Simpson, 39, and Landis Jackson, 39, led a significant criminal operation, distributing large quantities of cocaine in central North Carolina and Virginia’s Hampton Roads area.
On April 13, 2016, following a Norfolk drug dealer’s failure to pay over $81,000 for cocaine, Simpson and Jackson’s group sought retribution. They contracted Kalub Shipman, 36, a member of the Nine Trey gang, to murder the next person seen leaving a house frequented by the indebted dealer. Shipman, along with an associate, conducted initial surveillance in Virginia before returning to Greensboro. Shipman later enlisted Nelson Evans, 33, promising him a share of the $10,000 fee for the murder.
On April 18, 2016, Shipman and Evans traveled back to Virginia. The next morning, they shot Lillian Bond multiple times in Norfolk’s Ingleside neighborhood as she was taking out trash on Trice Terrace. Ms. Bond, who had worked at the Children’s Hospital for King’s Daughters for about 20 years, was known as a community pillar.
Following a three-week trial in early 2023, the jury convicted each defendant.