On July 12, 2025, 22-year-old Trevon Wise, a male from Jacksonville, North Carolina, was shot and rushed to Onslow Memorial Hospital, where he died from his injuries. Investigators determined the gunfire happened inside a vehicle near Huff Drive and Pine Valley Road, a residential area on the city's west side. The violence spilled from that moving scene when the suspected gunman jumped out and fled on foot, leaving the wounded Trevon Wise behind as the car's grim journey ended at the hospital.
Detectives quickly identified a suspect, Andre Derival, and obtained a warrant for his arrest. Officers converged on Derival's residence on Pine Valley Road and deployed the department's tactical team to serve the warrant. When they entered the home, they found Derival dead inside, ending the manhunt before any arrest could be made and signaling to neighbors that there was no ongoing threat to the public. With the only identified suspect deceased, the case shifted from a search for a fugitive to a reconstruction of events inside that vehicle at Huff Drive and Pine Valley Road.
The hours around the shooting left the neighborhood shaken—residents were evacuated as officers set a perimeter and prepared for a high-risk entry, the quiet of a summer evening broken by sirens and the churn of an unfolding homicide investigation. By the next day, police had confirmed Trevon Wise's death and the suspect's death, while urging anyone who had seen the vehicle or its occupants before the gunfire to come forward with details that could explain how a ride through Jacksonville ended with a killing and a body found in a barricaded home.
As the investigation moved forward, the community marked the loss of Trevon Wise, with funeral arrangements set in Orangeburg, South Carolina, underscoring the web of family and friends stretching beyond Jacksonville who were left to honor his life and mourn his sudden death. The obituary identified him as “Mr. Wise,” reflecting his gender, and noted services scheduled for July 19, 2025.
No arrests were made in connection with the killing of 22-year-old Trevon Wise because the sole suspect, Andre Derival, was found dead before he could be taken into custody. Authorities did not announce additional suspects and publicly stated there was no continuing danger to the community after Derival was discovered, leaving investigators to piece together motive and sequence from the evidence left behind.
