Mason Worthington (Wild Card, Virginia)

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Deck

Episode: Mason Worthington (Wild Card, Virginia)
Host: Ashley Flowers
Date: March 18, 2026

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Episode Overview

This episode explores the mysterious 2018 shooting death of William Mason Worthington in Williamsburg, Virginia. Host Ashley Flowers breaks down the circumstances surrounding Mason’s murder, the investigation’s hurdles, the key people involved, and the elusive figure known only as Victor, who may hold the answers investigators are seeking. Working with law enforcement and hoping to stir up new leads through podcast listeners, Flowers and her guests provide a detailed look at a case where many clues seem just out of reach.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Night of the Crime

• Initial 911 Calls & Discovery

  • Around midnight, December 29, 2018, dispatchers receive reports of gunshots on Wilkins Drive, Williamsburg ([03:01]).
  • Tyler Johns, a friend and roommate, calls 911 after discovering Mason's body upon returning home ([04:18]).
  • Mason is found dead in his hallway; his dog is safe but left outside.

• Crime Scene & Immediate Observations

  • Bullet casings are everywhere, suggesting multiple shooters.
  • No signs of forced entry, despite damage to the front door; implies targeted attack ([06:40]).
  • Over 50 pieces of evidence collected, including three firearms and drugs. The home environment is described as typically messy for 20-something roommates ([06:47]).

2. The Investigation: Evidence and Early Leads

• DNA & Physical Evidence Challenges
  • Forensic DNA results take eight to ten months, and ultimately yield little usable information ([07:21]).
  • Bullet trajectory analysis confirms the sequence of events and supports witness statements ([07:59]).
• Canvassing & Community
  • No ring doorbell cameras; officers canvass for witnesses or security video without luck ([07:59]).

3. Key Individuals & Interviews

• Tyler Johns (Roommate)
  • Credible account is quickly corroborated; deemed not a suspect ([09:19], [09:37]).
• Omar Gonzalez (Friend)
  • Accounts change between retellings; raises suspicion.
  • Points of concern over “space gaps” and inconsistencies in his statements ([11:35]).
  • Omar was present that night; spent much of the day and evening with Mason in D.C. before returning together ([12:42]).
• Victor (Pseudonym)
  • Invited over by Omar and Mason; theorized he may be involved in a drug deal and connected to the shooters ([13:26]).
  • Arrived shortly before two masked assailants entered the home; his presence is particularly suspicious ([13:26], [14:11]).
  • Remains elusive, with investigators unable to locate or interview him meaningfully to date ([22:13], [24:10]).

4. Drugs, Guns, and Clues

• Drug Dealing Context
  • Mason was selling narcotics; not previously on police radar for this ([13:41]).
  • Omar’s involvement in narcotics is suspected but unconfirmed ([13:49]).
• Sequence of Shooting
  • Two masked intruders entered, gunfire exchanged.
  • Mason managed to fire back, which is later forensically confirmed through the variety of calibers at the scene ([16:10]).

5. Remarkable Breaks—and Dead Ends

• Recovery of Guns

  • Unusually, two firearms used in the shooting are recovered by police within weeks—one in a car during a traffic stop, another from a timeshare unit ([18:09]-[20:35]).
  • Virginia’s 2018 laws prevent tracing the guns beyond their initial purchaser.
  • Both guns passed through numerous hands in the local narcotics community, complicating efforts to place them directly with the shooters on the night Mason was killed ([21:06]).

• The Search for Victor

  • Victor disappears after quitting a job without picking up his last paycheck ([22:13]).
  • Briefly resurfaces in Georgia; investigators lack legal grounds or resources to pursue him out of state.
  • Now believed to be back in Virginia—but still uncontacted by police ([24:10]).

6. Community and Call for Tips

• Mason’s Background
  • Known as friendly, well-liked, dog lover, mechanic; drug activity not widely known to friends/family ([15:38], [15:48]).
• Appeal for Information
  • Lt. Mickett urges anyone with even the smallest detail—vehicle sightings, partial plate numbers, or rumors—to report tips to the sheriff's office ([24:10]).
  • Belief that killers may have become more talkative or careless over time, increasing possibility of tips emerging.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Lt. Donald Mickett on the Scene:
  "He looks like a young man that lost his life way too early. He had been struck by gunfire several times. There's bullet shell casings everywhere." ([06:08])

• On Crime Scene Uniqueness:
  "Normally, homicide guns don’t come up. They don’t normally...I was amazed that it was recovered that quick." - Lt. Mickett ([17:40])

• On the Elusive Victor:
  "There's a lot of questions for Victor. Yes, I could fill a book full of them." - Lt. Mickett ([21:58])

• Lt. Mickett’s Plea to the Public:
  "Anybody that heard anything, saw anything that night... I would ask them to call and let somebody know. Even something very minor or small—it might be my piece that puts this all together." ([24:10])

• On the Emotional Toll:
  "This case I would love to get solved. I would love to say I put this person in jail and call Mason's mother and say hey guess what? I got your present. Here it is." - Lt. Mickett ([25:32])

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Important Timestamps

• 01:35 – Ashley Flowers introduces Mason’s case
• 03:01 – First 911 call; initial discovery of the crime
• 05:17 – Police enter and find Mason's body
• 06:40 – Realization: likely a targeted attack
• 07:21 – DNA and evidence challenges
• 09:37 – Omar and Tyler’s interviews
• 12:42 – Confirmation Mason and Omar’s movements (trip to D.C.)
• 13:41 – Confirmation Mason was dealing drugs
• 14:11 – Account of masked shooters entering
• 15:15 – Vigil for Mason and community response
• 17:40 – Guns from the crime recovered unusually quickly
• 20:35 – Challenges tracing illegal gun transfers
• 21:58 – Investigative emphasis on questioning Victor
• 24:10 – Lt. Mickett’s call for public tips
• 25:19 – Ongoing contact with Mason’s family, emotional weight

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Episode Takeaways

• This case stands out for its abundance of physical evidence, but a frustrating lack of actionable leads.
• “Victor,” a critical witness or possible participant, remains unlocatable—a recurring source of investigator frustration.
• Open appeals for small tips and potential prison informants mirror the broader “Deck” mission: that a listener might help break the case.
• The episode balances narrative storytelling with procedural insights, keeping a focus on both the cold facts and the emotional depth behind unresolved loss.

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Tip Line:
Anyone with information on the Mason Worthington homicide can call the York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office at 757-890-3621.

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Transcript

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[Ashley Flowers]

Our card this week is Mason Worthington, a wild card from Virginia. A 2018 shooting in Virginia has totally mystified investigators. They've managed to confirm so many details from that night down to how many people were in the room where shots were fired and who was sitting where. The problem is one of the people who is in that room who investigators believe may have answers. He's been on the move for the last seven years with one investigator trailing closely behind. Just never able to catch him in time. But maybe our DECK listeners can be one step ahead. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the Deck. Was right before midnight, about to be December 30th in 2018, when the phone rang for a dispatcher near Williamsburg, Virginia.

[911 Callers / Witnesses]

I just heard a. I heard several gunshots and then a car speeding off. And I just wanted to report that. Okay, it wasn't at our location, but we heard it very close. Did you see the vehicle? No, we didn't see anything. We were in the backyard, but we did definitely hear it. And it definitely sounded like gunshots. Sounded like four gunshots.

[Ashley Flowers]

Unfortunately, dispatchers across the country get vague Calls like this all the time. It could be serious, or it could turn out to be nothing like fireworks. So Lieutenant Donald Mickett and some other patrol units didn't know what they were in for when they were dispatched to respond to Wilkins Drive in Williamsburg.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

So the first two patrol deputies respond to the area. They drive down the street. It's kind of a little bit longer street, but it is a more of an older neighborhood. Older, like the houses, the actual subdivisions, a little bit older. And deputies. Patrol deputies responded out. We're checking the neighborhood things. They ended up talking to a homeowner down the street who thought it was fireworks as well. They stayed in the neighborhood for a few more minutes until essentially about 10 minutes after midnight, making it the 30th. And then that's when we went from there, where another 911 call came in.

[911 Callers / Witnesses]

9, 1, 1. What's the address of your emergency, ma'? Am? I'm over on. I think it's Wilkins. I think it's Wilkins Drive. I'm over off of 143.

[Ashley Flowers]

That's Tyler Johns, who lived on Wilkins

[911 Callers / Witnesses]

Drive by the Solo gas station. I just went to my buddy's house to get my dog because he was watching it for me, and he's dead in his hallway like he. I think he got shot or something. He is dead in his hallway there with him. Now I have walked. I walked right back out of the house. I don't. I don't know what to do. I. I don't. I don't know. Hold on. Let me see if I can find the mailbox. It's 10. 1095. Get over here. Get over here. It's 1095. Wilkinser. I'm not sure. Sir. Sir. Sir, I just flagged a cop down. A cop just drove past my house.

[Ashley Flowers]

Is it a York county cop?

[911 Callers / Witnesses]

Yes, sir. Please help. Please help. All right, I think he's stopping.

[Ashley Flowers]

Is he coming to you?

[911 Callers / Witnesses]

Yes, ma'. Am.

[Ashley Flowers]

All right, honey.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

A second officer pulled up within a couple seconds of together. They were responding rapidly. Obviously, they got to the front of the house, and he said that they. That the back door was wide open. That's what Tyler told them. So they actually went around the back of the house, it's a smaller residence, and went into the back of the house and came in to find the deceased inside the residence. They actually tried to look for any signs of life when they got there, and it was actually verified by a York county firefighter that responded as well that he was deceased when they made contact with him. His full name is William Mason Worthington, but he went just by Mason. All of his friends knew him by Mason.

[Ashley Flowers]

No one else was in the house. It was just Mason. Even the dog that Tyler had shown up to get was in the car parked outside. Although the property started filling up as more first responders arrived at the scene. And that's when Lieutenant Mickett got there.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

I've been doing this job a long time. Unfortunately, he looks like a young man that lost his life way too early. He had been struck by gunfire several times. There's bullet shell casings everywhere. There's some damage to the door from bullet strikes. There are other spots when you're standing in the living room, you can see where the other bullet strikes have struck the couch and the walls and things of that.

[Ashley Flowers]

Despite the damage to the front door from bullet strikes, there didn't appear to be any signs of forced entry, which told them something significant.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

It was not like a random act of, let me just pick this house. This appeared to be very much targeted towards mason.

[Ashley Flowers]

All told, Lieutenant Mickett and his team gathered more than 50 items of evidence from the scene. Things like shell casings, some drugs. They found three firearms and a bunch of random items like beer bottles. But it was hard to tell what was from that night specifically after learning that Mason lived in that house with two other roommates. And the house was the kind of messy that you would expect from most 20something guys. Anything they thought they had a good chance of getting DNA off of was sent to the lab. But as Lt. Mickett pointed out, that is often a bit of a long game.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

DNA takes a very long time at the lab. It's not like in the movies where we can say, oh, in the next 48 hours, I'm going to know exactly who touched this or anything like that. DNA is eight to 10 months out. So if I send them something, it's going to be eight to 10 months before they say, oh, there's multiple contributors. And you, you thought that was great, but you're not gonna get what you thought out of it.

[Ashley Flowers]

That's why Lieutenant Mickett didn't want to just sit back and wait for DNA to swoop in and save the day. He got right to work pounding the pavement, and spoiler alert, good thing he did, because when results did finally come back, they didn't get anything substantial to give them any leads.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

So for the first 12 hours, we had people inside the residence, several hours of collecting items, pulling bullets out of walls, checking trajectory to find out about where the. Basically the path of the bullet, the shell casings inside, the shell casings outside. And then we had other units and patrol units that were canvassing the neighborhood. This is before the time of everybody having a ring, doorbell, camera, or anything. So we wanted to see if anybody had heard anything, seen anything, had any possible video footage of a car down the street or anything that would be helpful of that.

[Ashley Flowers]

There was a third investigative path happening in parallel, too. They needed to talk to the people closest to Mason, Starting with his roommate, Tyler Johns, who called 911. And investigators also identified a friend, Omar Gonzalez, who was known to hang out there at the house all the time. Investigators separated Omar and Tyler in separate patrol cars, trying to piece together what they knew.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

They were both very, very upset about it. They had known Mason for a very long time. Omar was extremely hysterical, essentially talking, and then he'd get really upset, start to cry. Very, very upset about it. I think Tyler was more in shock. He would kind of give you a sentence and then just be quiet for a minute.

[Ashley Flowers]

Tyler told a pretty straightforward story. He had gone out with a woman, but was on his way home when he got a call from Omar saying that there had been a shooting. He rushed back to the house, and when he got there, he saw Omar out front waving him down. And that's when he immediately called 911 and flagged down officers.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

Normally, a suspect necessarily wouldn't be flagging down, standing there yelling for police in the middle of the road.

[Ashley Flowers]

Which is why Tyler's story seemed genuine and they dismissed him as a potential suspect early on. Omar, on the other hand, they had some questions about. We all know the struggle is real when it comes to building a timeless, high quality wardrobe without a ridiculous price tag. A lot of clothes these days are made to be thrown away in a season. Chintzy materials that just fall apart. But high end costs an arm and a leg. Unless you're shopping at Quint's. Quint's has high quality pieces that last, ever and last. I'm not kidding. I've been wearing quints for ages. Now I'm rocking the same silk skirt that I got years ago. It's machine washable and held up better than the silk skirt I got as a Christmas gift one year from one of those fancy box stores. And spoiler, I only have one of them still. It's the quint one. They have Items that are 100% organic cotton, 100% European linen, luxe, cashmere, and everything is built to last. So don't waste your money on throwaway fashion. Refresh your wardrobe with quince. Go to quince.com deck for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. Now available in Canada too. That's Q-U-I-N c e.com dec to get free shipping and 365 day returns. Quints.com deck. From the night of Mason's death, Omar's account left investigators with a lot of questions. And those questions have never quite gone away. Sheriff's deputies interviewed him at Mason's home and then again another four or five times, according to Lt. Mickett. And over the course of all of these conversations, Omar's story would change slightly.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

It seems some, some that Omar was leaving some space gaps in his story that was a little. That made us question it. That's why when we talk about the number of times that Omar's been interviewed about it, some of his stories seem to be a little funny. Didn't quite add up to some things. So doing interviews, if you ask someone to tell them about their day or where they started until they got to this point, if someone's being 100% truthful with you, they can give you every nook and cranny that they did in the last 10 hours, 12 hours, 15 hours, whatever. It seems if people leave big time gaps out that there's things that they don't want the cops to know. So that's. It did seem like there was. There was a lot of things either left out, either omitted, or which can also be from shock of something traumatic happening. But it can also be where they're. People are purposely leaving things out because they don't want the police to know.

[Ashley Flowers]

Omar was clear about a few things. He was at the house in the hours leading up to the shooting. In fact, he said he and Mason had been hanging out all day and had even gone on a little road trip.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

He had actually gone on a trip to D.C. earlier that day with Omar that they basically. I mean, they were taking pictures around D.C. and things like that. And then they came back to Williamsburg that evening.

[Ashley Flowers]

Investigators didn't need to take Omar's word. There were actually photos of him and Mason hanging out at the monuments. Omar said when the two guys got back, it was just them hanging out at the house because Tyler was out on a date and the third roommate, Zane, was out of town.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

Omar says that they were there hanging out, watching tv, playing video games. And they invited a gentleman over. That gentleman, for this purpose we're going to use, his name is Victor. And they had invited Victor over to the Residence.

[Ashley Flowers]

Now, Omar wouldn't come out and say this directly, but investigators have pieced together that there was some sort of drug deal going on here. Our reporter Kate Mishkin asked about this. Are you able to tell me if Mason was selling drugs?

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

It appears that he was selling narcotics, yes.

[Ashley Flowers]

Do you know if Omar was selling narcotics?

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

I know he was often there when narcotics were sold. If he was the actual seller of, I don't know.

[Ashley Flowers]

Omar said that within minutes of sitting down, two people came to the door.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

They had masks covering their face, and Omar had left the door unlocked. They pushed their way into the front door, and that's when the gunfire began.

[Ashley Flowers]

In some versions of Omar's story, he had locked the door after letting Victor in. In other versions, Victor had forgotten and left the door unlocked. Omar tried to tell them what he could about the two masked shooters, but all he knew was that they were roughly as tall as the door frame. But that's as descriptive as he got. Lieutenant Mickett says that they know so little, he's even hesitant to call them men because the reality is, we just don't know. Even with the vague description and the inconsistencies, Omar was cooperating with law enforcement, and that ultimately ruled him out as a suspect, which left Victor. The fact that he showed up right before the masked assailants, that seemed significant. But it turns out Victor was kind of a hard dude to find. Lieutenant Mickett wondered, though, if maybe, just maybe, he could run into Victor at the vigil Mason's friends and family held for him four days after he was killed.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

I actually attended it to try and see if there was anybody, possibly a suspect or anybody that, I guess more if. If someone showed up that people were like, why are they here? Or something like that, that would be a person to start looking at.

[Ashley Flowers]

So that was a bust. The vigil was filled with people who loved Mason, friends and family members who missed and remembered him.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

Honestly, a lot of people really liked him. He had a lot of friends in the neighborhood. He had a lot of friends in the area, people he went to high school with. A lot of people spoke very highly of him.

[Ashley Flowers]

Mason had gone to high school nearby and stayed local even after his family moved out of state. He was kind of an average 20 year old guy, liked cars. He loved dogs so much that his family asked for donations to the local humane society after he died. And he'd been working as a mechanic at a dealership in Williamsburg, Virginia. As far as everyone knew, things seemed to be going okay. But somewhere down the line, Mason Began selling drugs on the side. The sheriff's office doesn't know when Mason started dealing. I mean, he hadn't been on their radar for it. And based on what his family told police, it doesn't seem like that's something he shared with them either. They didn't want to be interviewed for this episode, so we couldn't ask them directly about that or if they knew that he kept guns. But I imagine that's something that he didn't flaunt to too many people, because in Virginia, you aren't allowed to own or carry a gun unless you're 21. Mason was only 20 people who were around Mason Daley, though, or in his house when deals were happening. They likely knew, because we know from witness statements and case evidence that Mason had a gun on him when the two shooters came in. And in the barrage of gunfire, Mason was able to fire back one shot. This was helpful information because it actually confirmed Omar's story of there being two shooters. You see, about this time, they had gotten the bullets from the crime scene analyzed, and they were informed that there were three different types at the scene. Now, knowing one of them was Masons, that left two other types of bullets from two different nine millimeter guns. Two shooters. The guns themselves, though, were nowhere to be found. But then something happened that almost never happens in cases like this.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

Normally, homicide guns don't come up. They don't normally, like, either people dismantle them, or you actually do find the person responsible, and then you search their house, search their storage locker, search something, and end up finding the gun, and that ends up coming back to be the correct one. Normally, it's not that the guns are recovered miraculously within two weeks and then four weeks of the homicide, but yet I don't have them in someone's hand that I can essentially say, oh, you know what? They're probably the one that did it. I was amazed that it was recovered that quick.

[Ashley Flowers]

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[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

So the second firearm was recovered. Police were called to a timeshare up in Williamsburg, and they were trying to get a hold of the occupants, trying to figure out who was rented to things of that nature. And then they ended up executing a search warrant at the residence or at the at the timeshare for this specific unit. And the firearm was recovered from that unit.

[Ashley Flowers]

But here's the thing about Virginia gun laws. Sales only had to be logged once when the gun was sold for the very first time. After that, any private sales didn't need to be tracked. Now, this has changed since 2018, but at the time, that meant that investigators could only find the first buyer. And of course, when they did, they learned that these guns had been out of their possession for some time. So they tried to work backwards. As Mickett told our reporter Kate so

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

the person that was pulled over in Import News said they got the gun from someone else. That someone else is known in the narcotics world in the area. Essentially, if you're going to say, yes, they have a criminal record or whatever, yes, they do have a criminal record. Yes, they are known by several local jurisdictions in the area to be around narcotics.

[Ashley Flowers]

And how do you know it's not the person who fired the weapon that day? I don't know that they couldn't necessarily put this gun in that person's hands. On the night of December 29, 2018. But that's what Lt. Mickett is trying to do now. Not with this person specifically, but he needs to put these guns in someone's hands that night. He suspects that identifying one of those gunmen would be easier with the help of.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

I would like him to tell me all about that night, what happened, what brought him there, what happened with the whole thing and essentially how it went down. There's a lot of questions for Victor. Yes, I could fill a book full of them.

[Ashley Flowers]

But he's never been able to go through that book of questions with Victor. Because to this day, no one's ever been able to pin him down and interview him about Mason. Lieutenant Mickett has come close, though. Victor didn't have a permanent address in 2019, Lt. Mickett figured out that he'd basically been couch surfing, staying with friends, but he was able to figure out where Victor was working at this business outside of Williamsburg. So Mickett spent a week surveilling the business, trying to track Victor's movements. He was able to ID him from a distance and saw him coming to and leaving work. But then one day, Mickit just stopped seeing Victor's car in the parking lot. So he called the business and got a hold of hr. Apparently, they turned around and tipped Victor off. And after that, Victor was gone for good. Didn't even show up for his last paycheck. And then Victor fled town altogether. Mickit couldn't figure out what happened to the guy. Even trying to track his driver's license and other identifying information didn't work for years. I mean, this dude was just a ghost. But it's hard to live like that, not using your real name or your Social Security number. Most people can't go forever, so every so often, Mickett would run it again and again. And one day, out of nowhere, there was his guy in Georgia. Now, he couldn't go out of state just to talk to him, and he didn't have enough for an arrest, but he was back on the radar. So Mickett's been watching and waiting. And guess who's back in Virginia. Mickett is actively trying to get in front of Victor, and he's looking for any other leads that our listeners can throw his way.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

I would say anybody that heard anything, saw anything that night, whether it be a car, a vehicle description, a partial license plate, anything from that night. You never know if it was something really small, but it could end up being that piece of the puzzle that fits us all together. I would ask for them to call and let somebody know. Also, offenders are kind of hush hush when this whole thing first happens. But we're several years from when this occurred back in 2018. So sometimes offenders get a little sloppy and start talking about hey or remember this or start bringing up details of things. If anybody hears any of these details or it can be a story amongst friends or anything, I would ask for someone to call in about that because you might think it's very insignificant or something very minor or small. But it might be my piece that puts this all together. They can call the non emergency number for the sheriff's office which is 757-890-3621 and they can say that they have information or a tip for the Mason Worthington homicide. It will likely be me that will be calling them back.

[Ashley Flowers]

Since 2018, Lt. Mickis stayed in touch with Mason's family. Normally around the holidays when Mason was killed, he's hoping that the next call he makes to them will could be a different one.

[Lieutenant Donald Mickett]

This case I would love to get solved. I would love to say I put this person in jail and call Mason's mother and say hey guess what? I got your present. Here it is.

[Ashley Flowers]

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