15-year-old dies a week after being shot near Raleigh’s Moore Square: Weekly Homicide Tracker
A 15-year-old was shot and killed in Raleigh last week.
The News & Observer and The Herald-Sun now list the Triangle’s most recent homicides online on Mondays in this new weekly roundup.
An interactive map, a searchable database, and links to our stories provide details on each death and the status of the investigation.
We are reassessing how we report homicides and violent crime.
▪ We want to rely less, especially on initial stories, on official sources alone.
▪ We want to emphasize trends and tell more about those killed and those affected by loss and violence in their communities.
▪ We want to create time in our reporters’ schedules to go deeper in search of better stories.
To do this, we may forgo separate stories on deaths when there is little information and sometimes not even a victim’s name.
The new homicide tracker, however, will include all violent deaths. (See below.) With the map, you can hover on a dot, learn the basic details and see the location of all homicides. With the database, you will be able to search for incidents by name.
Know that as you do this, we are working to learn more about each case, about the victim and the ripples their death has in the community.
If you know one of the victims of the homicides listed below and would like to tell their story, please contact reporters Colleen Hammond at chammond@newsobserver.com or Aaron Sánchez-Guerra at asanchezguerra@newsobserver.com
These are the homicides in the Triangle from Oct. 23-29.
Raleigh homicides
Date: Oct. 23
Victim: Shamar Leverette
Age: 15
Location: Person Street, near Moore Square Magnet Middle School.
Arrest: Steven Mark Stanley II, 22, is being held in the Wake County jail on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and possession of a firearm by a felon. He has also been charged with murder.
What we know:
Shamar Leverette was shot while standing up for a friend near Moore Square Magnet Middle School on Oct. 23. He later died of his injuries. Steven Mark Stanley II has been arrested and charged with murder.
Read more:
15-year-old dies from shooting injuries. Mom says he was standing up for a friend.
15-year-old injured in midday shooting near downtown Raleigh school. Here’s what we know
Durham homicides
Date: Oct. 24
Victim: Derke Clay
Age: 53
Location: Long Meadow Park, 900 block of Liberty Street
Arrest: Douglas Rashad Jones, 25, of Durham, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder
What we know:
Derke Clay, age 53, was killed in an altercation in Long Meadow Park on Tuesday. His body was discovered in the. park that afternoon. Police later announced that a 25-year-old named Douglas Rashad Jones had been arrested and charged with murder in Clay’s death.
Read more:
Fight in Durham’s Long Meadow Park kills one man, another now charged with murder
Wake County homicides
No new homicides were reported in Wake County between Oct. 23- 29.
Orange County homicides
No new homicides were reported in Orange County between Oct. 23- 29.
Database editor David Raynor contributed to this report.
This story was originally published October 30, 2023 at 8:32 AM.