Father, Son Arrested After Shootout During Guilford County Narcotics Raid

A rifle-armed 20-year-old opened fire on Guilford County Sheriff's deputies the moment they entered a Perga Court home during a narcotics raid, triggering a close-quarters exchange that ended with both the shooter and his father in custody.

Deputies were executing a narcotics-related search warrant at 1323 Perga Court in Greensboro on July 20, 2023, when Amarion Jequan Mann confronted them with a rifle and opened fire. Deputies returned fire. When the exchange ended, no one on either side had been struck. Amarion was taken into custody at the scene; his father, 39-year-old Jequan Shontroy Mann, was apprehended in the same operation.

The elder Mann's charges tell their own story about what deputies found inside the home. Jequan Shontroy Mann, a convicted felon prohibited from possessing firearms, was charged with two counts of cocaine trafficking, possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana, and possession of a firearm by a felon.

Amarion faces five charges in total: two counts of assault on a law enforcement officer with a firearm, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, and possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana. He is held at the Greensboro Detention Center on a $252,500 secured bond. His father is held at the same facility on a $75,000 secured bond. Both were processed at the Magistrate's Office in Greensboro before detention.

Sheriff Danny H. Rogers immediately launched a criminal investigation and an internal administrative review, standard protocol for the department following any deputy-involved shooting. Because neither the suspects nor the deputies were struck by gunfire, the NC State Bureau of Investigation was not requested.

That threshold sits against a troubling backdrop. Deputy Chief Vic Maynard told community members at a November 2023 town hall that violent crime had dropped 8 percent countywide, but acknowledged that deputy-involved shootings had increased over the previous five years. The Perga Court incident fits squarely into that pattern. In 2019, three Guilford County deputies were shot within a two-month span while serving warrants, none fatally.

The Guilford County Sheriff's Office handles approximately 67,000 calls for service each year across a county of more than 500,000 residents, operating on an $89 million annual budget with more than 600 sworn and non-sworn staff. Warrant service ranks among the most dangerous tasks deputies face, and the rifle shots fired inside 1323 Perga Court are the kind of data point that never surfaces in a countywide crime trend report.