Dexter Glendale Grant, 25, was shot multiple times outside a home on Granada Street in Asheville, North Carolina, on the night of June 21, 2021. The shooting occurred just north of Carrier Park and the French Broad River; police received a 911 call about 9:45 p.m. Grant was transported to a hospital in critical condition and later died from his injuries, recorded as Asheville’s fifth homicide of 2021.

Known as Dee, Dexter was born January 15, 1996, to Jamel McCallum and Jewell Grant. He attended Mullins High School in South Carolina and had plans to study culinary arts. Police named 22-year-old Amya Alexis Collington as a suspect; she turned herself in to the Buncombe County jail on June 22, 2021, and was held without bond. The dispute that preceded the shooting reportedly began over an altercation between their younger relatives at a playground.

Dexter’s family and community remember him for his outgoing, caring nature and love of family. If anyone has information about the events on Granada Street that night, please share what is known.