{"id":818796,"date":"2026-03-18T09:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/818796\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T09:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T09:01:41","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-in-2019-death-of-william-mary-running-back-the-virginian-pilot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/818796\/","title":{"rendered":"Man pleads guilty in 2019 death of William & Mary running back \u2013 The Virginian-Pilot"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 27-year-old from Chesapeake pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter in connection with the killing of Nathan Evans, a William & Mary University running back, nearly seven years ago after a drug deal<\/a> went bad.<\/p>\n

The Norfolk judge overseeing Kri\u2019shawn Beamon\u2019s plea has yet to decide whether to accept it, and plans to do so at the sentencing for September.<\/p>\n

On March 21, 2019, Beamon had contacted Evans, both 19 at the time, to purchase one pound<\/a> of marijuana.<\/p>\n

Evans, and his childhood friend Jack Rettig, drove together to a house<\/a> on West 43rd Street, where he and Beamon agreed to meet and carry out the deal.<\/p>\n

Beamon was waiting with another man who stayed outside as Beamon climbed into the backseat of Evans\u2019 car, a statement of facts says. He asked Evans to show him the marijuana, kept in a duffle bag.<\/p>\n

While Beamon was looking at it, he got out of the car and ran away.<\/p>\n

Evans ran after him. Rettig, who remained in the passenger seat of the car, heard multiple gunshots.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Evans died as a result of two gunshot wounds to the back, an autopsy found.<\/p>\n

Norfolk police found Beamon\u2019s phone and a trail of shell casings at the site of the shooting, the statement of facts says. But the phone\u2019s contents had been erased.<\/p>\n

Beamon was arrested days later.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Jonathan Edwards \/ Staff<\/p>\n

The sidewalk on 43rd Street in Norfolk, just west of Colley Avenue, where Nate Evans was found shot to death on March 21, 2019.<\/p>\n

Detectives were able to connect the shell casings to a firearm found in Suffolk following a shootout between two cars<\/a> and traced it back to a purchase Beamon asked his friend to make for him at a pawn shop the same day as the shooting.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors and Beamon\u2019s attorney, Andrew Sacks, agreed that Beamon did not pull the trigger.<\/p>\n

Keith Bryant was charged with second-degree murder<\/a> and use of a firearm after Beamon identified him to police three years after his arrest.<\/p>\n

In April 2024, Bryant\u2019s first trial for Evans\u2019 death ended in a hung jury. A year later in his second trial, he was acquitted.<\/p>\n

Bryant\u2019s attorneys criticized<\/a> the testimony of Beamon, who was the prosecution\u2019s star witness for both trials, as well as the police work in the case.<\/p>\n

The sentencing cap on a manslaughter charge is six years and seven months. Beamon has already served four years and seven months in Norfolk City Jail before he was released on bond after Bryant was arrested.<\/p>\n

Beamon\u2019s plea \u201ccomes after a long and tortured seven years in the investigation and prosecution of this case,\u201d said Ramin Fatehi, Norfolk\u2019s Commonwealth\u2019s Attorney. Evans\u2019 family was hoping for a trial and disagreed with the plea agreement, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a responsibility to the community to look with a cold eye at the weaknesses in the evidence,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd to make an offer that ensures a homicide conviction and the safety of the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beamon\u2019s attorney, Andrew Sacks, said to accept the guilty plea. However, he said\u201d] he sincerely believes this is a fair agreement.<\/p>\n

Nori Leybengrub, 757-349-3523, nori.leybengrub@virginiamedia.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old from Chesapeake pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter in connection with the killing of Nathan Evans, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,113766,113765,113767,49,48,71953,1948,3007,7252,2809],"class_list":["post-818796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-football","tag-keith-bryant","tag-krishawn-beamon","tag-nathan-evans","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-odu","tag-old-dominion-university","tag-running-back","tag-shooting","tag-william-mary"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116249369655849165","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}