Peter Anthony Davis, a Black/African American male, was found fatally wounded on the morning of August 25, 2025, along the 800 block of East Andrews Avenue in Henderson, North Carolina. Responding officers with the Henderson Police Department arrived around 9:58 a.m. and discovered Davis with injuries consistent with gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. He was identified as Peter Anthony Davis of Henderson.
Investigators quickly focused on a man they encountered at the scene. Michael Brown, 35, of Warrenton, was taken into custody on August 25 and charged with murder in connection with Davis’s death. A magistrate ordered that Brown be held without bond. Also present at the scene, according to police, was 45-year-old Chamell Perry of Warrenton; Perry was charged with accessory after the fact to murder and received a $100,000 secured bond. Both were scheduled for a first court appearance on September 19, 2025, and detectives noted the case remained active as they worked to establish the full sequence of events.
Public records summarizing the incident list the location as the 800 block of East Andrews Avenue in Henderson and record the fatal shooting on August 25, 2025. Memorial listings for Davis reflect the same date and identify him as a Henderson resident. An obituary published online gives his birth date as June 3, 1960, indicating he was 65 at the time of his death, while community memorial pages record him as age 60—an inconsistency common in early reporting.
Police and community sources describe the killing as an isolated shooting with no indication of additional victims, and authorities asked anyone with information to contact Henderson Police or Crime Stoppers as the investigation continues. The publicly named defendants—Brown on the murder charge and Perry as an alleged accessory—remain the only suspects identified by authorities in connection with Davis’s death as of the latest reports.
