On June 24, 2024, at about 9:30 p.m. officers from the Monroe Police Department responded to a shooting on North Secrest Avenue in Monroe, North Carolina. Two teenagers were found with gunshot wounds: 17-year-old Jadyn Charles Rowdy was pronounced dead at the scene and 18-year-old Jontavis Hood was taken to a hospital and expected to survive.

Police say Rowdy and Hood were in the yard of a residence when a group arrived and a verbal altercation escalated. Multiple people discharged firearms and the shooters fled before officers arrived. Two men have since been arrested: 20-year-old Christopher Thomas Barrett on June 26 and 19-year-old Jeremey Anthony Jackson on July 2, each charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, and discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling.

A Celebration of Life for Jadyn Rowdy was held on July 20, 2024, at Nicey Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Marshville. The investigation remains active; anyone with information is asked to contact the Monroe Police Department or Union County Crime Stoppers.