A family gathering in Kingsport, Tennessee, ended in tragedy on the morning of June 21, 2024. Angelique Lannette Ferguson, 43, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot to the abdomen inside a home in the 400 block of Barnett Drive. Emergency responders arrived about 8:55 am and she was taken to a hospital, where she died of her injury.

Angelique, born in 1980, was a Dobyns-Bennett High School graduate and a U.S. Army veteran who served until 2005 and remained in the National Reserves for several years. Family remembered her as outgoing and devoted to her children and grandchildren. Investigators say her brother, 48-year-old Curtis Ferguson, discharged the handgun while removing it from his pocket; he fled the scene, later went to a nearby fire station to report the shooting, and then disappeared. A warrant charged him with negligent homicide, tampering with evidence, and being a felon in possession of a handgun.

Curtis Ferguson was located June 24 driving a Ford F-150 and resisted a traffic stop, leading officers on a pursuit into Scott County, Virginia, before his apprehension and additional charges including felony evading and possession of a firearm during the commission of a dangerous felony. Angelique is survived by her three children, Kira, Dylan, and Ethan Brown, her grandchildren Amelia, Everly, and Kinsley, and her parents and siblings.

Did anyone in Kingsport see or hear anything that morning that could help clarify what happened?