De’Anthony Ellis, a 28-year-old Black man and local rapper, was killed in Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 21, 2021. The shooting happened shortly after 8:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the Food Lion at 9021 Albemarle Road in east Charlotte. A manager at a nearby tobacco store estimated hearing about 10 gunshots and saw cars scattering, later describing the scene as being like a war.

Officers found Ellis with serious injuries from an apparent gunshot wound; medics transported him to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. Two men, identified as Xavier East and Divine Miller, arrived at a hospital with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds and were later determined by Homicide Unit detectives and officers from the Hickory Division to be suspects in Ellis’s killing. After receiving medical treatment, both men were interviewed and then arrested on murder charges.

Ellis is remembered by family as a beloved brother and local artist. Does anyone have information about that night at the Food Lion parking lot or knew De’Anthony’s activities in the area?