Daquan Mokare Mercer was 21 when he was shot and killed in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on June 9, 2021. The shooting occurred around 1:10 a.m. near Herrington Road and B Street; officers found Mercer unresponsive in the grass with multiple gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Mercer lived on Rhonda Road in Elizabeth City.

Elizabeth City police opened an investigation. On July 6, 2021, detectives served indictments charging 20-year-old Kennedy Griffin with murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with Mercer’s death. The investigation noted this shooting occurred about 24 hours after another man was shot in the back while driving on Roanoke Avenue; no arrests have been announced in that separate shooting.

A Celebration of Life service for Mercer was held June 18, 2021, at St. Stephen Missionary Baptist Church, and he was interred at Dove’s Landing Cemetery. Does anyone who knew Mercer or witnessed events around Herrington Road and B Street that night have information to share?