Cleveland Sinclair Davis, 45, was shot on the night of June 28, 2025, on East Liberty Street in Salisbury, North Carolina. Police were dispatched about 10:36 p.m. after reports of shots fired and found Davis unresponsive in the roadway with gunshot wounds. He was taken to Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Hospital and died of his injuries on June 29.

Detectives from the Salisbury Police Department, with assistance from the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation, developed leads pointing to a single suspect. On July 15–16 authorities arrested 47-year-old Jamel Lee Staton and charged him with murder; he was booked into the Rowan County Detention Center without bond. As of the arrest announcement no motive or additional suspects had been publicly detailed, and investigators asked anyone with information to come forward.

Does anyone have information about that stretch of East Liberty Street or saw activity there on the night of June 28?