On January 1, 2023, at about 4 a.m., officers responded to a reported shooting at 2125 Silver Maple Lane, Apartment 206, in Greenville, North Carolina. Responding officers found 32-year-old Deshawn Lavert Roundtree with gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. A second person, 21-year-old Kiaira Boomer, was taken to ECU Health Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.

Investigators say the shooting began after an altercation among acquaintances inside the apartment. Detectives interviewed several potential witnesses and canvassed the neighborhood, which led to the identification and arrest of 18-year-old Savion Isaiah Moore on January 3, 2023. Moore was charged with murder, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, and discharging a weapon into occupied property, and held on a $750,000 bond.

Roundtree was born November 28, 1990, and was a Greenville native who attended Agnes Fullilove and North Pitt High School in Bethel. He worked in production at Acculink and enjoyed rapping, singing, and riding dirt bikes and four-wheelers; he was a member of St. Johns Deliverance Church. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to come forward.