Seventeen-year-old Messiah Pitt was shot and killed on June 19, 2021, while leaving a graduation party in Garner, North Carolina. The shooting happened shortly after midnight on Claymore Drive near McNair Glenn Court as party-goers were walking back to their cars. Police say Pitt was not believed to be the intended target; shots were fired into a large group of young people and he was struck in the crossfire.

Investigators later arrested several men from Durham in connection with the case. Courvoisier Massey, 19, and D Cario Nelums, 21, were charged with murder. Donnavan Darnell Holland-Terry, 20, was charged with being an accessory after the fact and held on bond; Juwan Ra Se Blue, 19, was also wanted as an accessory after the fact and was located and arrested by Garner police.

Many questions about the circumstances of the shooting remain; anyone who witnessed the party or the moments afterward is asked to come forward with information.