Eddie Tank Brooks Thomas Jr., 43, a Black man from Hamlet, North Carolina, was found shot and deceased inside a Rose Street home in the Dobbins Heights community around 2:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 4, 2025. Deputies with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office reported that Thomas did not live at the residence where he was found.

Within about a day of asking the public for help, investigators charged 26-year-old Janaydia Nyshamique Tender of Hamlet with first-degree murder in connection with Thomas’s death. Tender was booked into the Richmond County Jail and held without bond while the case moves through the courts. Investigators said the killing was connected to a prior domestic-violence case; no additional suspects have been announced and detectives continue to gather evidence.

If anyone in the Dobbins Heights community or elsewhere in Hamlet has information about Thomas’s movements that night or the circumstances leading up to the shooting, please share what is known with investigators.