Delashon Andrews, a 23-year-old Black man from Kinston, North Carolina, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of October 29, 2020. Officers found Mr. Andrews deceased from gunshot wounds outside a building at the Paramount 3800 apartment complex on Bostic Drive in Greenville around 4:30 a.m. Two other men — Isaiah Payton, 20 at the time and also from Kinston, and 22-year-old Darius Wayne, a resident of the complex — suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds and were taken to Vidant Medical Center. Investigators recovered three firearms at the scene and believed the people involved knew one another; no immediate arrests were made and the case later went cold.

A renewed investigation began in March 2024 when Greenville Police Detective Jeffrey Dixon and Pitt County District Attorney’s Office Investigator Veronica Johnson reexamined evidence and reinterviewed witnesses, producing new leads. Detectives concluded Isaiah Payton shot Delashon Andrews and Darius Wayne, and that Payton was injured when Mr. Andrews returned fire. In September 2024 authorities charged Payton, then 24, with murder and related counts; he was in custody on unrelated drug charges at Hyde County Correctional Institution at the time. The case record later notes Isaiah Paul Payton, then 25, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in connection with Andrews’s death.

If anyone has information about what happened at the Paramount 3800 complex that night, please come forward.