Aljarez Elliott was 18 and days away from graduating from Cape Fear High School when he was shot and killed in Fayetteville in the early morning hours of May 31, 2023. He had hopes of joining the military and his family was mourning the recent death of his older brother, Aldarris Elliot, at the time.

Police say Aljarez was at a home in the 700 block of Rembrandt Drive with his cousin, 24-year-old Alzy Diamond, and two friends when an argument over the phone with two other men escalated. Those two men arrived at the house around 3:15 a.m., an altercation broke out, and gunfire followed. Officers found four men shot; Aljarez and Alzy Diamond were pronounced dead at the scene. A third man was critically injured and a fourth sustained non-life-threatening wounds. Alzy Diamond left behind a 1-year-old daughter.

Two 21-year-old Fayetteville men, Tyrone Demetrius Washington and Treshaun Lewis Geddie, were arrested and charged in the case and held without bond. One of the co-defendants later pleaded guilty and the other was tried and acquitted. Did anyone at the Rembrandt Drive residence or in the neighborhood see or hear anything that could help fill in what happened that night?