David Costello Colbert Jr., known to family as Da Da and Lil David, was a 20-year-old Black man from Charlotte born September 28, 1987. He worked with his father on real estate projects learning painting and carpentry, was active in his church community, and is remembered by relatives as respectful, generous, and quick to smile. His funeral was held at Chappell Memorial Baptist Church with burial at Gethsemane Memorial Gardens.

On Sunday evening, October 21, 2007, David was shot in the 700 block of Eastway Drive in Charlotte’s Eastway Division. A witness drove him to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department substation on North Tryon Street, where he was pronounced dead outside the station doors.

Family guestbook entries describe the pain of his loss and the ways relatives kept his memory alive; they also recall that he had been talking about positive changes in his life shortly before he was killed. Does anyone who knew David or was in Eastway on October 21, 2007 have information that could help resolve his case?