On September 8, 2009, 17-year-old Jermaine Larquez Lynch of Rocky Mount, North Carolina, was shot and killed during a home robbery on Travis Run just after 10 p.m. A group of friends were playing cards outside when an SUV carrying four to six masked men pulled up. The men, dressed in dark clothing and claiming to be police, displayed handguns, shotguns and rifles and ordered the card players to lie on the ground while they robbed them.

Jermaine, who lived nearby, witnessed the robbery and tried to flee; one of the gunmen shot him in the upper body as he ran. He was pronounced dead at Nash General Hospital shortly afterward. Police searched the area with K9 units and recovered some stolen items in a nearby ditch, but the masked suspects escaped in the SUV. Investigators described one gunman as a black man about 45 to 50 years old with a thin build and a thin gray beard. No arrests had been made and the case remained open as police continued to seek tips.

If anyone knew Jermaine or has information about the robbery or the SUV and its occupants, contact Detective Michael Lewis or Crime Stoppers.