Janaree Shamon Williams was 19 and a Daytona Beach resident when he was killed on June 13, 2017. A former high school football player and a student at Bethune-Cookman University studying criminal justice, Williams was in a car at 549 Park Drive with two others to buy marijuana when a dispute with the seller, Keyonte Upton, escalated. Upton stepped out of the vehicle and fired into it. Williams drove away but crashed into a tree, then exited and chased Upton on foot. The pursuit ended in the 500 block of Division Street when Upton turned and shot Williams, who died at the scene.

Investigators arrested Keyonte Upton and charged him with second-degree murder and multiple related offenses. Upton later pleaded guilty to shooting into an occupied vehicle, armed burglary of a conveyance, aggravated assault, attempted armed robbery, armed robbery, being a felon in possession of a firearm, carrying a concealed firearm, and second-degree murder. Circuit Judge Matt Foxman sentenced Upton to 30 years in prison for the murder, with other sentences ordered to run concurrently.

If anyone knew Janaree, his activities that day, or saw anything in the 500 block of Division Street or near 549 Park Drive on June 13, 2017, please share what is known.