On August 11, 2020, 28-year-old Deavon Davis was shot near the basketball courts around Bishop Isaac Jenkins Street and Young Street in Pocomoke City, Maryland. Police received a 911 call for a shooting victim in the 500 block of Bonneville Avenue shortly before 4 p.m. Officers found Davis with multiple gunshot wounds; he was transported by ambulance and was pronounced dead before reaching the hospital.

Maryland State Police Homicide Unit took over the investigation. Troopers’ preliminary findings reported a suspect ran toward Davis and fired multiple shots before fleeing into a nearby wooded area. Early the next morning, at approximately 2:15 a.m., 18-year-old Marion Maddox of Pocomoke was arrested and charged in connection with the shooting. The motive for the attack was not immediately determined.

Deavon Davis was born in Nassawadox, Virginia, and had worked for Perdue Farms, Inc., in Accomac. He is survived by his parents, a step-father, a grandmother, and seventeen siblings. If anyone has information about what happened that afternoon, please come forward.