Travis Johnson, a 42-year-old African American man, was killed on January 6, 2018, in the Deer Run Drive area of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. He was found deceased at the scene; a second male was critically injured in the same shooting.

Two Roanoke Rapids men, James Edward Powell, 25, and Dillon Tyler Irby, 21, were arrested and charged with murder, attempted murder, and robbery with a dangerous weapon in connection with the shooting. Powell had a prior criminal record; he received a concurrent sentence of 317 to 393 months for the second-degree murder of Travis Johnson and, separately, four consecutive life sentences for unrelated murders in August 2017. Authorities said no new evidence indicated other accomplices, and the motive for Johnson’s killing remains unclear.

Did anyone in the Roanoke Rapids area know Travis Johnson or have information about what led to that night on Deer Run Drive?