Late on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, 19-year-old Nelson Gregory Goff of New Bern, North Carolina, was critically wounded in a shooting on Poplar Street near Oaks Road. New Bern officers responded around 11:56 p.m.; Goff was transported from the scene and airlifted to Vidant Medical Center. Police formally identified him after he died at the hospital the following Saturday from injuries sustained in the shooting. The New Bern Police Department logged the case as the Poplar Street Homicide, case 2019-18530.

Department records show detectives pursued interviews and search-warrant evidence for months afterward, and the case remained listed as pending interviews through January 2020. Records mention a related assault investigation and a separate Poplar Street shooting that resulted in an arrest, but the reports do not identify a suspect in Goff’s homicide or show any murder charge, prosecution, or conviction tied specifically to his death. Online remembrances refer to him as Nelly and recall his close family ties and sense of humor.

If anyone knew Nelson, his movements that night, or has information about the Poplar Street Homicide, please share what is known with New Bern police.