On April 14, 2023 in Ahoskie, North Carolina, a confrontation at a home on Jernigan Airport Road ended with both 46-year-old Derrick Lamont Monger and 17-year-old Jaylen Lamar Carey fatally shot during an altercation. The dispute is reported to have started from an earlier incident involving a family member of Monger and Carey; Monger went to Carey’s residence to address the matter and an argument escalated into gunfire that killed both men.

After the double fatality, the same house was struck in a separate retaliatory shooting. A 25-year-old relative of Carey, Joshua Devonte Tann, suffered minor injuries from bullet fragments and was treated and released from ECU Health Roanoke-Chowan Hospital. Law enforcement identified four suspects connected to that secondary shooting, all related to Monger.

Arrests on April 14 named 21-year-old Cameron Jaiy’er Lassiter and 20-year-old Justin Rashad Powell, each charged with two counts of attempted murder and discharging a weapon into occupied property. Brandin Deandre Hawkins, 24, was charged with accessory after the fact. On April 19 Andreas Monger was arrested on charges including attempted first-degree murder and discharging a weapon into occupied property. On May 2 Rashad Quadre Harmon, 29, was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, discharging a weapon into occupied property, and possession of a firearm by a felon.

Are there readers who knew either Derrick Monger or Jaylen Carey or who can help clarify the sequence of events that led to the shootings?