Rodney Hamilton was a 52-year-old security guard and father who was killed while on duty outside Reba’s Bar and Grill on Camp Greene Street in west Charlotte. In the early morning hours of December 9, 2023, Hamilton was sitting in his car when someone shot him four times. Officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department who were stationed nearby heard the gunfire, found Hamilton with multiple wounds, and he was later pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Police quickly focused their investigation on a suspect identified as 37-year-old Jamar Demontae Davis. Davis was located and arrested minutes after the shooting following a police chase and was charged with first-degree murder. Hamilton’s family remembered him as a man people loved to be around and said he was simply doing his job the night he was killed.

If anyone saw activity on Camp Greene Street that night or has information about the shooting, please come forward to assist investigators.