A North Charleston man wanted for nearly two years in connection with a brutal domestic violence case has finally been taken into custody. Daquan Edward Cannon was arrested Monday night after officers responding to a suspicious-activity call found him near a vehicle on Stafford Road, and a records check revealed he was still wanted in a case first reported back in August 2024.
According to Live 5 News, North Charleston police officers were first called to the 7600 block of Rosin Drive on August 14, 2024, after a report of domestic violence. The victim told police Cannon was her boyfriend, and she said he turned violent after she told him she was pregnant.
Per the police account relayed in that report, the victim said Cannon assaulted her on and off for about two months leading up to the incident. She also told officers that Cannon strangled her, held a gun to her head, and threatened to harm her and her family. Cannon fled the scene before officers arrived that day, according to police.
A Suspicious-Activity Call Leads to an Arrest
The case went unresolved for roughly two years until Monday night, when officers located Cannon around 11 p.m. following a report of suspicious activity on Stafford Road. Police found him inside a vehicle in a parking lot, and a records check turned up the outstanding domestic violence case tied to his name, the station's report notes.
Cannon was charged with domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature and transported to the Al Cannon Detention Center, per the same account. Additional case details, including any bond or court proceedings, were not included in the report.
A Broader Pattern in Charleston County
The arrest lands amid a documented rise in domestic violence reporting across the region. Charleston County saw domestic violence reports climb from 1,486 in 2022 to 1,551 in 2023, according to ABC News 4. Statewide, South Carolina logged 28,943 intimate-partner assaults in 2021 and 28,324 in 2022, the station reported.
At the same time, ABC News 4 found that the number of domestic violence cases reaching trial in the 9th Circuit fell sharply, from 873 in 2021 to 729 in 2022 and down to 641 in 2023. The outlet also reported that South Carolina ranked among the ten states with the highest rates of women killed by men in 23 of the past 25 years covered by the cited study.
How State Law Defines the Charge
Under South Carolina law, domestic violence in the third degree is treated as a lesser-included offense compared to second-degree, first-degree, and high-and-aggravated domestic violence charges, according to the South Carolina Code of Laws. That distinction places the charge Cannon now faces among the most serious domestic violence classifications the state recognizes.
