Construction worker once linked to homicide case sentenced to four years

By Linda Cicoira

A Parksley construction worker, who was once linked to a homicide case, was sentenced to the mandatory four years in prison Thursday in Accomack Circuit Court for gun violations.

Judge Lynwood W. Lewis Jr. gave 28-year-old Kriq Nygee Weathers five years with three suspended for being a felon and possessing a firearm, and five years with three suspended for possessing cocaine while possessing a gun on April 22, 2024.

Defense lawyer Eric Korslund said his client “ran and had the gun because he feared someone was coming to kill him.”

Weathers was acquitted of possession with intent to manufacture cocaine in September.

Direct indictments for first-degree murder, use of a firearm in a felony, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder, and being a non-violent felon in possession of a gun in connection with a murder were filed for Weathers on Feb. 28, 2025. Orders stating the charges wouldn’t be prosecuted were filed on Aug. 15.

The victim was 27-year-old Rashaun Anthony Brown Jr., who was shot to death on Feb. 13, 2024, on Stumpy Lane, near Onley’s Lankford Highway shopping areas.

Similar indictments were brought in February for 33-year-old Christopher Clovis-Weathers Monfiston, of Chesapeake. The prosecution was also dropped against Monfiston on Nov. 5.

     A trial for the first-degree murder of Brown with suspect 27-year-old Taquan Lee Bell, of Gibons Lane in Accomac, is set for February 2026. Thirty-two-year-old Tyvon Lyncurtis Smith, who is from Parksley but was living in Virginia Beach, was also indicted in connection with the murder. His jury trial is scheduled for April 22 and 23, 2026.