Raekwon Shonte Rodgers, 24, was shot and killed on September 19, 2021, while seated in a car outside a Family Dollar on Hines Street in Wilson, North Carolina. Also in the vehicle were 26-year-old Kiara Janay Faison and a 3-year-old child; Faison was treated and released and the child suffered only a graze wound and was treated at Wilson Medical Center. Rodgers was taken to Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, where he died of his injuries.

Investigators say the shooting occurred in the 700 block of Lane Street. Authorities identified 28-year-old Christopher Dale Pender Jr. of Wilson as the gunman and charged him with first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of discharging a weapon into an occupied vehicle, and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury; he was held without bond in the Wilson County jail. The motive has not been disclosed and officials continue to seek information.

If anyone has information about what happened that night, please share details with the investigators handling the case.