PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) — Earlier this month, on Oct. 8, Portsmouth Police were called to the 300 block of Choate Street around 12:30 a.m., and as soon as they got there, officers found a woman who had been shot and was seriously injured.

Court documents identified the victim as Talesha Nicole Pugh, 50, and noted she had been shot several times — four times in the chest and another in the back. She suffered massive internal bleeding and had to have her kidneys removed.

It still wasn’t enough, and Pugh died at the hospital.

Pugh, however, did manage to help catch her killer, according to a court document. It stated she called her daughter and identified the shooter as Lamont Eugene Stevenson — Pugh’s boyfriend.

The document went on to say that a video showed a suspect matching Stevenson walking from the home carrying a rifle. A .40 caliber rifle was recovered in the woods close by, and paperwork shows that the shell casings recovered from inside were a match.  

Stevenson, 49, was taken into custody and has been charged with several counts, including aggravated murder during the commission of a robbery resulting in death.

The police investigation revealed that Stevenson is a four-time convicted felon with his last conviction in 2014 in Richmond. Court documents in Portsmouth also revealed an emergency protective order for family abuse was taken out on Stevenson in October 2023.

Stevenson is currently being held without bail, and his next scheduled court date is Nov. 19.