Strangers, family gather to remember slain Wilson 7-year-old

“Seven-years-old, it is real sad,” he said.

Yolanda Johnson didn’t know Kamari either, but she also made her way to the funeral home.

"It touched me. It touched me hard," she said.

Kamari died July 23 after someone fired bullets outside his home on Parkview Street.

One of the bullets passed through Kamari’s bedroom window and struck him in the head.

Montavius Syquan Davis, 24, of 7726 Gardners School Road, Stantonsburg, was arrested and charged Thursday with first-degree murder.

Charles Moore, who lives near Davis, said he was at the residence recently with investigators.

“They brought him back here with an orange jumpsuit on, then they went back there,” he said.

Moore said the murder charge against Davis seemed out of character for him.

“I have been seeing him in and out and it just doesn’t fit him,” he said.

While Kamari’s death caused shock and anger throughout Wilson, it has also rallied the city.

“It is starting to bring Wilson back together,” Johnson said.

It is that community cohesiveness that helped lead investigators to an arrest, said police, who added they expect more arrests. Investigators have not commented on why shots were fired into Kamari's home.

Davis is scheduled to make his first court appearance Friday morning.