Daremon Waldon was 17 and a student at Howard High School when he was shot and killed on December 1, 2024, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Known as Doopie, he took honors classes and loved basketball and baseball. Family remembered him as a caretaker, a natural-born leader and a loving older brother to six younger siblings.

The shooting occurred during a domestic disturbance at his home. Rowland went outside, then tried to re-enter through a different door and fired multiple shots through the door. Daremon stood between his mother and the gunfire; he was struck multiple times and later died at a local hospital.

Police identified Dejuan Rowland as the suspect and arrested him on December 18, 2024, at a home on Delbert Lane. He has been charged with first-degree murder and is in custody at the Hamilton County Jail. Did anyone in the Chattanooga area know Daremon or have information about that night?