Te’naji Cherry was 20 when he was shot and killed on October 23, 2022, on Thigpen Road in Conetoe, North Carolina. The Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office responded to a shots fired call around 6 p.m.; Cherry and another man, then-19-year-old Kedarrius Williams, were found injured. Cherry died of his wounds; Williams was treated and released from the hospital that night. Cherry was one of the victims in two separate deadly shootings in Edgecombe County that day.

Reports state the investigation later produced a warrant for first-degree murder in Cherry’s death. On October 10, 2023, Kedarrius C. Williams turned himself in to the Sheriff’s Office and was charged in connection with the killing. The case remains under active investigation.

Does anyone in Conetoe or the surrounding area have information about where Cherry was earlier on October 23, 2022, or about the shootings that day?