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Case Description
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In the summer of 2021, a trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, ended in tragedy for 21-year-old Kanon Cook Melvin, a male resident of Fayetteville, North Carolina. On the evening of June 10th, on Willoughby Lane, a confrontation during a planned drug transaction violently spiraled, resulting in the shooting deaths of both Melvin and his 19-year-old companion, Ja'Leel Stephens. When law enforcement arrived at the scene near the intersection of 44th Avenue and Robert Grissom Parkway, they found bo ...Read More
Victim Details

Kanon Cook Melvin

Male

Black / African American

Myrtle-beach

SC

2021-06-10

21

Kanon

Cook Melvin

12/12/2025