Anthony Shearin, 24, was shot and killed on August 27, 2025, during a midday shooting at the New Dixie Mart gas station on Julian R. Allsbrook Highway in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. Police were called just after 1 p.m.; officers found one man dead outside the store and another inside. The other victim was identified as 19-year-old Dasean L. Banks. The shooting prompted a heavy law-enforcement response and precautionary school lockdowns in the area.

Police said investigators focused on events from the night before, reporting that Shearin and Banks had fought. Authorities allege Banks returned the next day with another man and confronted Shearin inside the store, an altercation that escalated to gunfire. Within hours officers arrested 26-year-old Ju-Quan Letrae Rawles on an obstruction charge; a warrant alleged he left the scene, changed clothes and concealed the weapon. Two days later police filed two counts of murder against Rawles, and said the working theory is that he shot both victims.

Was anyone in the Roanoke Rapids area that day aware of the earlier fight or the confrontation at the gas station?