Lacoria Zhanae Cox

Lacoria Zhanae Cox was born June 21, 1999, and raised in Pikeville, North Carolina. She was 20 years old when her life ended in March 2020. Public notices list her hometown and the funeral arrangements handled by Haskins Funeral Home & Cremations, which records her birth date and memorial information.

Though public details about Lacoria’s daily life are limited in the records available, the facts that remain point to a young person with a life and relationships that mattered to family and friends. As a native of Pikeville, she was part of a small, connected community where neighbors and relatives share memories and support one another through difficult times. The brevity of the public record should not obscure her full humanity—Lacoria was more than a date on a notice; she was a young woman whose presence mattered to people who knew her.

On the night of March 3, 2020, Lacoria was wounded in a shooting in Wayne County and later died at a local hospital. Local news outlets reported the events surrounding the shooting and the county investigation that followed. Those who knew her entrusted her final arrangements to Haskins Funeral Home & Cremations.

Because published public information about Lacoria’s life is limited, this remembrance focuses on honoring her as a person: a young woman from Pikeville whose life was cut short and whose memory remains with those who loved her. This page acknowledges the limits of what is publicly known while offering a respectful space to remember Lacoria Zhanae Cox for the life she lived, not only for the manner of her death.