Just before dawn on July 13, 2025, police were called to the 800 block of Virginia Street by Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. There, officers found Ryo DeCari Steele, 19, male, gravely wounded alongside his friend La’Ren Dickens, 20. Despite efforts to save them, both were pronounced dead at the scene, a sudden end that rippled across the city before sunrise. A police summary later laid out the cadence of that night—multiple gunfire calls across Rocky Mount within
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