10 On Your Side helps grieving fiancee

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - A young woman whose fiance was gunned down looked to 10 On Your Side when she couldn't get a full refund for her unused, unaltered wedding dress.

Photos: Grieving fiancee's story

Divon Beckwith, 24, was shot and killed outside a Virginia Beach club Jan. 13. His alleged killer, Alonzo Phelps, was denied bond in court Thursday. Damian Dennis was also charged in Beckwith's murder.

Beckwith proposed to his girlfriend less than a month before he was killed.

"I was getting ready for work, coming out of the bathroom," Yvette Parson said. "There he was, on his knee, asking me to marry him. He told me he loved me more than anything and that I was his queen, and I immediately said, 'Yes.'"

A couple of weeks later, Parson went wedding dress shopping with Beckwith's mother, Paulette Beckwith, at Hilltop's All the Rage bridal store. 

"No alterations and it fit like a glove," Parson said. "And it made me look smaller than I was."

The dress was perfect and cost $1,894. Eight days later, Beckwith was killed.

"I told [All the Rage] my son was murdered," Paulette Beckwith said.

The wedding dress contract clearly reads, "All sales are final. No refunds, cancelations, credits or refunds."

The manager offered a refund of 50 percent, $947. They suggested Parson sell the dress on eBay to get the rest of the money she was owed.

"It disgusts me," Paulette Beckwith said. "I called as a mother to let the manager know my son was murdered."

"I felt defeated," Parson said. "The death of Divon... and now I had to do with the unfair people in the world."

The two women, helpless, turned to 10 On Your Side.

WAVY.com contacted the bridal store's management, asking them to return the full amount Parson paid for the dress. The store's owner Sam Harmon returned Parson the full $1,894.  Parson said she remains upset about how the situation was handled by the store's management.