An 18-year-old Greenville man is sitting in jail without bond after police say he fired several shots into a home with a woman inside it earlier this week. Ke'Marion Dixon now faces six felony counts tied to the gunfire on Cross Creek Circle, including charges of discharging a weapon into occupied property in North Carolina.
According to WITN, warrants allege Dixon shot several times into the occupied home on Tuesday. Court records cited by the station say the gunfire also damaged a sedan, causing more than $200 in damage. Police did not say how many total shots were fired or whether a weapon was recovered.
Greenville police announced the charges Wednesday: six counts of felony discharging a weapon into occupied property, one count of injury to personal property, and one count of discharging a firearm within city limits. Dixon was booked and held without bond, the station's report notes.
What North Carolina Law Says About Shooting Into Occupied Homes
The discharge-into-occupied-property charge Dixon faces stems from North Carolina General Statute § 14-34.1, which targets the willful or wanton discharge of a firearm into occupied property. The injury-to-property charge falls under a separate section of state law, General Statute § 14-160, covering willful and wanton damage to personal property. Neither statute's full penalty structure was detailed beyond the charges WITN reported.
It remains unclear what, if any, connection Dixon had to the home or the sedan, and police have not described a motive for the shooting.
A City Already Grappling With Gunfire Calls
The shooting lands against a backdrop of a Greenville Police Department that, by its own numbers, is logging hundreds of gunfire-related calls a year even as overall crime trends downward. The department's 2025 statistical review found that overall crime in the city dropped 12 percent compared with the year before, a figure WNCT's report on the annual presentation detailed in February. But that same review counted 491 calls about gunfire over the course of the year and more than 800 firearms removed from circulation by officers, according to the same report.
Police Chief Richard Tyndall said at the time that gun violence remains an area of focus for the department, per the station's coverage. The review also found that while overall crime fell, violent crime stayed relatively flat, and rape and homicide cases actually increased year over year. Property crime, meanwhile, dropped 13 percent citywide, according to WNCT, which also reported that traffic enforcement rose 52 percent, pushing stops citywide toward nearly 30,000 for the year.
No court date, attorney, or plea has been reported for Dixon as of now, and the case appears to still be in its early stages. Greenville police have not released further details on the circumstances that led to the gunfire on Cross Creek Circle.
