Steven Andrea Jones II, 28, was shot on February 24, 2024, near a Dollar General in the 5400 block of Rock Quarry Road in Raleigh. Officers arrived about 1:11 p.m. and found Jones with a single gunshot wound; he was taken to a hospital and later died. Jones was a Raleigh native.

The Raleigh Police Department opened a homicide investigation. On February 25 authorities arrested 29-year-old Montravius Malik Montgomery on charges of murder and possession of a firearm by a felon. The motive for the shooting has not been announced. The incident was the second fatal shooting in Raleigh that Saturday, after an unrelated earlier shooting where another person was found with multiple gunshot wounds.

Anyone who has information about Jones’s death is asked to contact Crime Stoppers to report tips anonymously.