Damana Perry Jr., a 17-year-old Black male from Montgomery, was caught in a burst of gunfire on the afternoon of June 23, 2021, when police were called around 1:40 p.m. to the 100 block of Rotary Street after reports that several people had been shot. When officers arrived, they found Perry and 18-year-old Car’Terius Brown with fatal gunshot wounds, both dead at the scene.
Two other males had also been hit, one suffering life-threatening injuries and the other a wound police described as non-life-threatening, and both were taken to a local hospital. Early coverage made clear that what happened on Rotary Street was not an isolated injury report but a violent scene that left multiple victims sprawled across one terrible summer afternoon in Montgomery.
In the immediate aftermath, Montgomery police drew a distinction between the cases opened for the two teenagers. Brown’s killing was publicly identified as a homicide investigation, while Perry’s death was described by police as a death investigation, even though local reporting said both teens had been found with fatal gunshot wounds at the same scene. Public obituaries and memorial notices that followed placed Perry’s death on June 23 or listed his passing on June 24, a difference that appears to reflect the timing of formal death notices rather than a different event. What remained consistent across the available reporting is that Perry was one of the teenagers killed in the Rotary Street shooting in Montgomery.
What gives the case its lingering weight is not only the violence of the shooting but the silence that followed it in publicly available reporting. In the sources I found, no suspect was publicly identified in connection with Perry’s death, and I found no credible online report of an arrest, indictment, trial, or conviction tied specifically to his killing. The local news coverage available through WAKA and related summaries focused on the shooting itself, the victims, and the injuries, but did not report that police had taken anyone into custody for Perry’s death. That leaves the story with the unfinished feel that so many family and neighborhood tragedies carry: a teenage life ended in broad daylight, multiple people shot, and no publicly documented resolution visible in the sources I located.
