Christopher Eron Williams, a 35-year-old African American man, was shot and killed on June 2, 2016, in a mobile home park off Jamestown Road in Morganton, North Carolina. Witnesses reported an argument followed by two gunshots around midnight. Melissa Dean, who lived nearby, said the gunfire woke her and her 2-year-old daughter; she spoke with Williams before someone drove him to the hospital, where he died from a gunshot wound to the stomach sustained while he was working on car stereo speakers.

The Burke County Sheriff’s Office investigated and issued warrants for William Chase Pate, 29, and Cordero Louis Thompson, 27. Pate was charged with murder and Thompson with being an accessory after the fact. Both were taken into custody without incident at a home in Old Fort with assistance from the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office, the State Bureau of Investigation, and the Old Fort and Marion police departments. The motive remained unclear.

Does anyone have information about Christopher’s last hours or who might have been present at the mobile home park that night?