DeAnthony Letrelle Morgan, 20, was found shot to death on December 30, 2024, in Hillsborough, North Carolina, alongside 16-year-old Zikera Wardlow. Their bodies were discovered inside a parked vehicle off Old N.C. Highway 86 after a caller who had heard gunshots reported a car that had been sitting for an extended period. Morgan, from LaGrange, North Carolina, was a North Lenoir High School graduate working at Sanderson Farms in Kinston while taking college courses. Wardlow was a student and basketball player at Discovery Charter School in Durham; reports say Morgan picked her up the evening of December 29 intending to take her to Bojangles and they never returned.

The Hillsborough Police Department, with help from the State Bureau of Investigation, is actively handling the case. No arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced; investigators are asking anyone with information to contact authorities or submit anonymous tips through designated hotlines or online portals. Morgan’s funeral was scheduled for January 14, 2025, at the Original Tabernacle of Prayer in Goldsboro, with burial planned at Sutton Family Cemetery in LaGrange.

Does anyone in the Hillsborough or LaGrange areas remember seeing a parked vehicle off Old N.C. Highway 86 on the night of December 29–30, 2024, or have information that could help investigators?