Timothy Leon Stokley III, a 37-year-old African American man, was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds in the roadway in the 1200 block of Sawyer Road in the Newland section of Pasquotank County, North Carolina in the early hours of December 31, 2015. Deputies were dispatched shortly after midnight. Stokley had recently returned to the area after previously moving away.

According to the case account, Harold Clyde Griffin Jr. was arrested and charged with first-degree murder on January 4, 2016. At a March 2018 trial the jury returned a guilty verdict; the court entered judgment and sentenced Griffin to life without the possibility of parole. Prosecutors presented evidence that on the night of December 30, 2015, Griffin and others including Jessica Skinner and Lela Reid had been partying and drinking, that Stokley was introduced to the group, and that during a ride Skinner pulled off the road, Griffin and Stokley exited, gunshots were heard, and Stokley was later found dead. Griffin then returned to the vehicle and threatened Skinner and Reid, directing them to drive around.

Who knew Timothy or has information about that night in late December 2015?