NC A&T Student Dead After Shooting At Apartment Complex Near Campus

GREENSBORO, N.C.  — One person was killed in a shooting on Spring Garden Street Thursday night (Aug. 22), the Greensboro Police Department (GPD) reports.

According to a press release, GPD, Greensboro Fire, and Guilford County EMS responded to the 2800 block of Spring Garden Street near Campus Crossing Apartment Complex about an aggravated assault around 9:10 p.m. on Thursday.

Officers said when they arrived, they found Davion Jessup, 20, had been shot. Police said he was found unresponsive in the breezeway of the apartment building.

Officers said life-saving efforts were initiated, but Jessup died from his injuries on the scene.

Police are investigating the incident as a homicide, and it is Greensboro’s 26th of the year.

24 hours after her son Jessup was killed, Karisha Boney returned to the Campus Crossing Apartment Complex on Spring Garden Street, where the shooting took place.

Boney says her son was a North Carolina A&T State University junior enrolled in the management program and has lived at the apartment complex for the past two years.

“He was a friend, dedicated, loving, and had a great sense of humor,” Boney said.

When first responders arrived, Boney says a neighbor was by her son’s side.

“He held his hand and said Davion told him his name, and he told him he didn’t want to die. The guy told Davion, ‘You’re not going to die. You’re going to be OK.’ He said he held pressure to his wounds until they got there … From what the police told me, he just went to sleep,” Boney said.

NC A&T State University shared the following message with their student body in the wake of Jessup’s death:

We regret to inform you that North Carolina A&T student Davion T. Jessup, 20, from Charlotte, North Carolina, died Thursday, Aug. 22. 

Davion was a junior enrolled in the Management program (Entrepreneurship concentration) in the Willie A. Deese College of Business and Economics.

Davion’s death is a great loss to the university community. Our heartfelt prayers and condolences are with Davion’s family and friends.