On August 19, 2023, at about 8:06 p.m., officers responded to a reported shooting in the 1300 block of Westwood Drive in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Investigators found 30-year-old Marquis Tyshawn Lee Farmer in the parking lot of the Nash County ABC Store at 1322 Westwood Drive suffering from gunshot wounds. Emergency personnel were unable to save him and he died at the scene.

Police say an altercation began inside the liquor store between Farmer and two other individuals, then continued into the parking lot where Farmer was fatally shot. Authorities identified and arrested two people in connection with the incident: 22-year-old Zyon Rasheem Betts of Prince William County, Virginia, charged with second-degree murder and held without bond, and 31-year-old Rocky Mount resident Pierre Antoine Tucker, charged with felony accessory after the fact and held on a $250,000 secured bond.

Farmer was a Rocky Mount resident and a father of four who had been training in boxing and working to change his life. The Rocky Mount Police Department asks anyone with information to come forward. Did anyone see or hear anything that night at the Nash County ABC Store parking lot?