Timmy Jaurice Moore, a 33-year-old Black male from Statesville, North Carolina, died on June 14, 2025, after being shot near Deaton Street by Abernathy Ball Field shortly before 12:45 p.m. Officers responding to reports of gunfire found him in a nearby front yard with multiple gunshot wounds to the abdomen and legs. He was taken to Iredell Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police identified the victim as Timmy Jaurice Moore, 33, and began collecting evidence and interviewing witnesses as the neighborhood absorbed the shock of a midday killing near a city ball field.
Detectives quickly focused on a suspect and obtained a murder warrant for Austin Ty’Kim “Kimbe” Morrison, 23, of Statesville. Authorities said the investigation tied Morrison to the Deaton Street shooting that killed Timmy Jaurice Moore, 33, and launched a search for him in the weeks that followed. The same weekend saw a separate fatal shooting in another part of Statesville, but investigators said they did not believe the two homicides were connected.
On June 30, officers spotted a vehicle driven erratically and attempted a traffic stop. According to police and local reports, the driver—identified as Austin Ty’Kim “Kimbe” Morrison—fled, drove off the roadway and through residential yards, then ran on foot before he was apprehended. Morrison was served with the outstanding murder warrant related to the death of Timmy Jaurice Moore, 33, booked into the Iredell County Detention Center, and held without bond.
In the days after the killing, friends and relatives memorialized Timmy Jaurice Moore, 33, in online obituaries that marked the sudden loss and set funeral arrangements in Statesville. Community outlets cataloged his death among those lost to gun violence on June 14, 2025, underlining the rupture the shooting left in a quiet Saturday afternoon.
