NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Little Piney Grove Baptist Church Pastor Rashad Cartwright was on the lookout for 43-year-old Katrina Wade for the Wednesday evening service Nov. 6, but he never saw her.
“Katrina had reached out to our deaconess because she hadn’t been in church for a little while and … the night before, I think she reached out to Katrina and didn’t get a response back,” Cartwright said, “[and] in the morning, I reached out to her and didn’t get a response back. Then to find out later that the reason there was no response is because of this tragedy.”
That tragedy unfolded on the evening of Nov. 6 in the 2700 block of Corprew Avenue. Someone opened fire on Wade and two other men, ages 24 and 43. The men suffered non life-threatening injuries. Wade was pronounced dead at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
Norfolk Police said the case remains unsolved.
“[She’s] a woman who will light up the room,” Cartwright said. “She had a smile that all of our church would love to see her. … Any way she could serve or help, that was Katrina.”