At a press conference this afternoon, Chief Mark Macon made an appeal to the audience for the need for the public to come forward with any information they may have.

Macon said a joint investigation with the help of the State Bureau of Investigation and the Halifax County Sheriff's Office has come up with physical evidence in the case as well as persons of interest but declined to elaborate further.

All that is known now is that the 606 Cedar Street murder of Dy'Uanna Anderson and the shooting of her grandmother, Catherine Price, was not a random act of violence, but a deliberate one in which the Price home was shot into shortly after 12:30 a.m. The Cedar Street murder occurred three hours after the murder of Keyuon Garner, 15, and the shooting of two his friends at Eleventh and Maple streets in an area of South Weldon known as The Strip.

One person has been arrested in the Garner murder and another is being sought.

The violence, Halifax County Sheriff Wes Tripp said late Thursday night, appears to have been brought on by at least a dispute that arrestee Semaj Clanton and Teddy Anderson Jr., who is still being sought in connection to the Garner murder, had with other people at an entertainment venue Saturday night.

Macon declined comment on whether the murders Monday and Tuesday go back as far as the July 4 murder of Lynn Clanton, who is related to Semaj, or whether it could be related to possible turf disputes between Garysburg and Weldon residents. Anderson is related to the toddler who was killed.

Macon also declined to call any of the violence retaliation.

Macon told reporters Dy'Uanna was asleep in her bed when she was shot. There was probably nothing she wanted more to do on Tuesday morning, he said, “Than play with her toys.”

Her killers, he said, ended her chance to grow up and attend school.

Larry Price, the child's grandfather, said his wife is “coming along good” in her recovery. “I've been up there every night. She was shot seven times. She has to have surgery tomorrow. She's going to be all right. She's at a good hospital.”

Torie Ponton, the great aunt of the child, said the family wants the public to come forward. “We know it was retaliation. It's heartless people to kill a 2-year-old.”

Anyone with information is encouraged to call the Weldon Police Department at 252-536-3136; the Halifax County Sheriff's Office at 252-583-8201 or Crimestoppers at 252-583-4444.