Stephen Jerome Carroll II, 39, was shot just before midnight on August 2, 2025, along the 6200 block of South Boulevard near Archdale Drive in south Charlotte. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers found him with a gunshot wound; medics took him to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead in the early hours of August 3. Public notices and memorials confirm his age and death that weekend.

Detectives developed leads pointing to a robbery linked to the shooting. CMPD identified 29-year-old Steven Downing Jr. as a suspect, obtained warrants, and took him into custody on August 3. He was charged with murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon under report number 20250802-2355-00. Investigators interviewed Downing Jr. at CMPD’s Law Enforcement Center. Community tributes and funeral home notices in the days after remembered Carroll by name and age.

Did anyone in the South Boulevard or Archdale Drive area that night see or hear anything that could help clarify the sequence of events?