Seventeen-year-old Brady Lee Mercer of Chadbourn, North Carolina, was killed by gunfire on September 29, 2023. Born April 4, 2006, he was a student at West Columbus High School. A Celebration of Life was held October 11, 2023, at Worthington Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Steve Nobles officiating; friends visited the family afterward. Brady was preceded in death by his grandparents Sherry F.

Mercer and Billy Joe Mercer. He is survived by his mother Meghan Renee Iseman of Virginia; his father Matthew Hall Mercer of Chadbourn; and two sisters, Gabrielle Hall Mercer and Hailey Renee Mercer, both of Chadbourn. Brady’s grandmother Sandra Tyler organized a GoFundMe to help with funeral expenses and support his sisters, and donations to a Brady Mercer Burial Fund were requested in lieu of flowers.

If anyone has information about what happened to Brady, please come forward.