On July 9, 2024, 19-year-old Marquez Alexander Summers was fatally shot in Charlotte, North Carolina, around 5:30 p.m. on the 6100 block of Carver Boulevard near West Sugar Creek Road. An acquaintance transported Summers to Atrium Health University, where he died of his injuries.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police say the shooting grew out of a $470 marijuana deal that turned violent behind Rockwell Park. Summers and an associate had arranged the transaction with 22-year-old Demarius Jeprese Poole. A dispute over money led to an exchange of gunfire; Poole was also injured and sought hospital care, later admitting to being at the scene and possessing a firearm matching shell casings found there. Poole was already in custody on unrelated charges when warrants were sought and has been charged with murder and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle; he is being held at the Mecklenburg County Detention Center without bond.

This was the fifth homicide in Charlotte within a 36-hour span. CMPD asks anyone with information to contact the Homicide Unit or Crime Stoppers. Does anyone have information about Summers, the July 9 transaction, or what happened behind Rockwell Park?