Leon Tremaine Bradshaw, a 38-year-old African American man, was shot and killed on the morning of August 30, 2015, in Statesville, North Carolina. Officers found Bradshaw around 5:00 a.m. lying in the doorway of a residence on the 1000 block of Wilmington Avenue with a gunshot wound to his chest. He was taken to Iredell Memorial Hospital, where he later died. His brother, Deleon Carshaw Dalton, was also shot in both legs and treated at the hospital.

Although numerous witnesses were reportedly at the scene, the investigation stalled and the case went cold for months. In January 2019 a new detective re-interviewed witnesses, and those interviews led to the identification of Okiera Donnell Myers as a suspect. On March 8, 2019, Statesville police arrested Myers and charged them with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.