Late on July 14, 2025, police responded to reports of gunfire at the Keating Pointe apartments on 2nd Street SE in Hickory, North Carolina. Officers arrived about 5:40 p.m. and found 22-year-old Keimarian Donyah Peterson, a Black man from Hickory, dead outside the complex at 1123 2nd Street SE. Early accounts described the shooting as a drive-by attack; investigators recovered nearly a dozen shell casings and asked for tips, including information about a Dodge Charger seen after the shots.

Local coverage says Peterson had been walking home when the gunfire began. Ten days after the shooting, 19-year-old Jaheem Quashawn Harris of Lenoir was arrested and charged with murder in Peterson’s death and booked into the Catawba County Detention Facility without bond. Police continued to seek information as they worked to reconstruct the moments that led to his death. If anyone saw the area around Keating Pointe that evening or has information about the Dodge Charger, please come forward.