Karon Howard was an 18-year-old African American male who was shot and killed on April 8, 2018, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. He was found sitting in a vehicle near the intersection of Cliffdale Road and Reilly Road around 12:18 a.m., taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center in critical condition, and later died of his injuries.

The Fayetteville Police Department treated the shooting as a homicide and said the incident did not appear to be random. Detectives arrested 16-year-old Taji M. Elliott of Pembroke on May 1, 2018; Elliott was charged with first-degree murder and discharging a weapon into an occupied vehicle causing serious bodily injury and was held without bond. Investigators were seeking the public’s help to identify a person and vehicle of interest and continued to pursue leads.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or knew Karon, please share tips with the Fayetteville Police Department.