Shemar DeAlvin Hayes was a 23-year-old former Rocky River High School football standout who continued his career at Louisburg College. He was found shot to death in the passenger seat of a car on the afternoon of March 12, 2024, around 12:00 p.m., in the 11600 block of Red Hickory Lane in the Steele Creek Division of Charlotte. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene; his father reported that an assailant had climbed into the passenger side of his son’s car and shot him multiple times in the face.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Homicide Unit opened an investigation and asked residents in the Grier Fork neighborhood to check doorbell and surveillance video from about 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the day of the shooting. Detectives later identified an 18-year-old named Tyzavian Smith as a suspect and took him into custody after a brief standoff on March 27, 2024.

If anyone in the Steele Creek area had video footage or other information about what happened that midday on March 12, please share it with investigators.