Terryon Latrell Davis, a 21-year-old man from Goldsboro, North Carolina, was killed in the early morning hours of Tuesday, June 9, 2026, after gunfire broke the quiet along the 600 block of West Chestnut Street. Goldsboro police said officers were sent to the area shortly before 3:40 a.m. after reports of shots fired. When they arrived, they found Davis suffering from a gunshot wound. Wayne County EMS responded, and multiple local reports said he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The first public details described a sudden, still-unexplained shooting rather than a confrontation with a clearly identified suspect. Police did not release a motive, did not say whether Davis was targeted, and did not describe what may have happened in the moments before the gunfire. The Goldsboro Police Department’s Investigative Services Bureau and Crime Scene Unit were called in to process the scene and begin a criminal investigation, indicating the case was being treated as a homicide investigation from the outset.
As the investigation moved past the initial response, authorities publicly identified the victim as Terryon Latrell Davis of Goldsboro. Local coverage remained focused on the basic facts: a shots-fired call before dawn, Davis found wounded on West Chestnut Street, and investigators working the case after his death. The reporting available so far does not include any confirmed eyewitness account, surveillance description, vehicle description, or named person of interest.
No arrests had been announced in the online reports available after the shooting. ABC11 reported that the investigation was ongoing and that no arrests had been made, while WCTI reported that authorities had not released additional details about a suspect or the circumstances surrounding the shooting. Hoodline likewise summarized the case as one in which investigators were asking for tips and no arrests had yet been reported.
For now, Davis’s killing remains an open case publicly framed by unanswered questions. Police have confirmed where and when he was found, and they have confirmed that detectives and crime scene personnel responded, but they have not publicly named a suspect, announced charges, or described a theory of what led to the shooting. The available reporting leaves the case at the investigative stage, with Davis’s death added to a troubling stretch of gun violence in Goldsboro and with authorities still seeking information that could lead them to whoever fired the fatal shot.
