Tavarus Lashon Taybron was 24 when he was shot and killed in Charlotte, North Carolina, on June 21, 2020. Officers found him in the common area of an apartment complex on Varsity Lane at about 10:52 p.m.; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department classified the death as a homicide and noted it occurred during a 24-hour period that saw six murders in the city amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

On August 11, 2021, police arrested 21-year-old Christopher Flood in Wilmington and charged him with Taybron’s murder; he was later transferred to Mecklenburg County. The CMPD Homicide Unit continued to investigate and sought additional information from the public about the circumstances of the shooting.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or knew Tavarus, please come forward to assist the ongoing investigation.