Emone Anthony Tyrone McGougan, a 20-year-old Black man from Fayetteville, North Carolina, was fatally shot on January 29, 2025, in the 300 block of Round Tree Drive. Responding officers found him with gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Before his own death, McGougan had been a suspect in the May 18, 2023, shooting death of 17-year-old Dakota Lee Johnson in the 2300 block of Indian Creek Drive. He had been wanted on charges including first-degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and felony conspiracy in connection with that case.

Fayetteville police identified 21-year-old Khailil Johnson as the suspect in McGougan’s killing and an arrest warrant charging first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon was issued. On February 18, 2025, the Fayetteville Police Department’s Homicide Unit and Violent Criminal Apprehension Team arrested Khailil Johnson, who is now being held at the Cumberland County Detention Center without bond.

Did anyone in Fayetteville see or hear anything around Round Tree Drive on January 29, 2025, that could help investigators?