Emanuel Montez Blowe Jr., a 31-year-old African American man, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of March 26, 2016, at the Body Tapp strip club on Bragg Boulevard in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Police responded to a shooting around 2:30 a.m.; Blowe was found with multiple gunshot wounds and was later pronounced dead at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center. A second 31-year-old man, Stanley Lamar Simons of Hope Mills, suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was also taken to the hospital.

Investigators identified 31-year-old Derek Terrill Tolliver as the primary suspect. Tolliver was arrested on July 22, 2021, in Savannah, Georgia, on unrelated charges, and Fayetteville Police detectives took him into custody the same day. Tolliver faces first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; he is being held without bail in the Cumberland County Detention Center. Blowe’s mother, Sharon Blowe, has spoken publicly about seeking closure and justice for her son.

If anyone was at the club that night or has information about what happened inside Body Tapp on March 26, 2016, please come forward.