James Little Daugherty, 27, was shot in the early morning hours of June 4, 2022, in a downtown Charleston parking lot near Hale Street and Kanawha Boulevard. The shooting was reported about 2:00 to 2:10 a.m. in the Spyros parking lot, in the heart of the city’s nightlife district. Officers found Daugherty suffering from multiple gunshot wounds; he was taken to a local hospital and died shortly thereafter.

Charleston police treated the incident as a homicide and investigators from the Criminal Investigation Division canvassed the scene and asked witnesses to come forward. Later on June 4 police identified 23-year-old Meeko Harris of Beckley as a suspect and sought him on charges including first-degree murder and wanton endangerment. Harris was located in Osceola County, Florida, arrested with U.S. Marshals’ assistance, extradited to West Virginia, arraigned in Kanawha County Magistrate Court, and later indicted by a Kanawha County grand jury on first-degree murder and related firearm charges.

Daugherty was remembered in funeral notices as James Little Daugherty, born in Charleston in 1994, and described as an HVAC specialist with surviving family and loved ones grieving his loss. Does anyone who was in or near the Spyros parking lot that night have information that could help clarify what happened?