Two arrested in shooting death near Guy Smith

A 20-year-old was killed Wednesday night after two men exited a car on Memorial Drive and shot into another vehicle that was stopped in traffic, the Greenville Police Department reported.

The incident occurred about 6 p.m. in the 900 block of South Memorial near the entrance to an AutoZone, police said. That’s at Crosswinds Street north of Moye Boulevard not far from Guy Smith Park.

Terrance Harrell was in the stopped car with three other people. He was transported to ECU Medical Center by a private vehicle. He died at the hospital later from several gunshot wounds, police said.

Officers responded to the scene shortly after the shooting but all the people involved in the shooting had left, police said. Minutes later patrol officers stopped a car in the parking lot of the Food Lion at 250 Easy St., which is off of Memorial Drive in the northern part of town.

Two men were in the car and both were detained and transported to the police department for questioning, police said. They were identified as Kiheim Roman Perkins, 19, 2663 Silver Creek Drive, Greenville, and Kenyon Fowlkes, 24, 4217 N.C. 33 West, Greenville.

Guns also were seized from the car, police said, and Harrell arrived at the hospital as officers were detaining the men. He died as the men were being questioned.

Each man was arrested and charged with one count each of murder and three counts each of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, attempted murder, discharge a weapon into occupied property serious bodily injury. They were jailed at Pitt County Detention Center without bond privileges.

Police said Thursday that a motive for the shooting was still under investigation. They said preliminary information suggested the incident stemmed from an earlier altercation between the occupants of the two vehicles.

The shooting was a targeted incident and those involved knew each other, police said, and there is no ongoing threat to the public.

The shooting took place just before the start of a Greenville Yard Gnomes baseball game at Guy Smith, disrupting activities there for a short period.

Police updated the public via social media Wednesday night after the suspects were detained. The post said that normal activities had resumed at the stadium and the incident posed no ongoing threat to people in the area.