Obituaries
Memorial Service Set For Arlington NAACP Official Kent Carter
A memorial service will be held Saturday in Arlington for Kent Carter, a Realtor and NAACP official who was killed Oct. 2 while on vacation.
ARLINGTON, VA — A memorial service will be held Saturday in Arlington to celebrate the life of Kent Carter, a real-estate agent and NAACP Arlington Branch official who was killed Oct. 2 while on vacation in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
The memorial service for Carter at Mount Olive Baptist Church will start at 11 a.m. The service will be live-streamed on the church's website. Mount Olive Baptist Church is located 1601 South 13th Road in Arlington.
Carter, a Realtor with Keller Williams Metro Center and first vice president of the NAACP Arlington Branch, was vacationing on the islands for his 40th birthday with his girlfriend.
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The two were on a hotel shuttle heading back from the beach when a shooting took place, according to reports. Carter and a staff member were killed in the shooting, and three other people were wounded in the attack. Carter’s girlfriend survived the attack.
Carter was born Sept. 28, 1982, and grew up outside Knoxville, Tennessee. He joined the military in 2000 and was first deployed to the Pentagon. In 2002, he deployed to Afghanistan for six months as a member of a U.S. Army Personal Security Detail.
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He also served as an airborne Army police officer and as a special agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the U.S. Department of Commerce. During his military career, he pursued his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in criminal justice.
Carter was serving his second term as the first vice-president of the NAACP Arlington Branch and chair of its Criminal Justice Committee. He represented the NAACP on Arlington’s Police Practices Group and supported the creation of a Community Oversight Board, whose members were appointed in the spring.
Keller Williams Metro Center, Carter's employer, has set up a GoFundMe campaign to support his family with immediate expenses and "mostly to support his 14-year-old daughter for her current and future education expenses and passions."
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