Jermaine Stuckey, a 44-year-old African American man, was shot and killed on September 22, 2018, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department found Stuckey with a gunshot wound in the parking lot near the Blue Olive Lounge in the Ballantyne area after a call around 2:10 a.m.; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

The CMPD investigation identified 29-year-old Marquis Latoniel Smith as a suspect. Smith surrendered to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office on January 4, 2019, and was charged with Stuckey’s murder. The CMPD’s Homicide Unit had been searching for Smith and was asking the public for information about the shooting and the events that led to it.

Anyone with information about the shooting or who knew Jermaine Stuckey is asked to share what they know.