On September 27, 2023, at about 3:44 p.m., 21-year-old Taqon Jayshon Blake was shot at the W.D. Hill Recreation Center on Fayetteville Street near Massey Avenue in Durham, North Carolina. He was taken to Duke University Hospital and later pronounced dead. The Durham Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

A funeral for Blake, known to friends and family as Qon, was held on October 7, 2023. On October 24, 2023, investigators announced arrests: 22-year-old Messiah King Harvin-Cleveland of Durham was charged with first-degree murder and held without bond, and 27-year-old Tia Sonee Howell of Durham was charged as an accessory after the fact with bond set at $500,000. Both were in custody at the Durham County Jail and the investigation remained ongoing.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Investigator J. Flamion or Durham CrimeStoppers; tips can be submitted anonymously through the Durham CrimeStoppers website. Did anyone in the area see or hear anything near the W.D. Hill Recreation Center on the afternoon of September 27?