Nicholas Blake Nick Conner, 24, of South Boston, Virginia, was killed on December 18, 2019, in Henderson, North Carolina. He had traveled to Henderson to buy a cellphone and was found in a crashed vehicle on Mansfield Lane after suffering multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at Maria Parham Hospital.

The Vance County Sheriff’s Office, assisted by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, arrested four people in connection with the case: Damarous Magbie, 23; Demetris Miller, 23; Latimor Drumgold, 23; and Neajsia Jones, 19. All were charged with felony murder and attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon; Magbie also faces a charge of discharging a weapon into an occupied moving vehicle. The suspects were held without bond and court dates were pending. Authorities have not provided a clear motive, though investigators believe Conner was shot while in his vehicle, which then struck the edge of a woodline.

Conner was born October 27, 1995, graduated from Halifax County High School and Longwood University, and was active in Bethel Baptist Church and his community. The family held funeral services at Bethel Baptist Church, where he was buried in the church cemetery.

If anyone has information about Conner’s death or the events on Mansfield Lane, please come forward.