Tyler Ray Wood was found with serious gunshot injuries on August 17, 2024, along the 1000 block of East Wait Avenue in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Emergency responders took the 29-year-old to a local hospital, where he later died. The Wake Forest Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

On August 27, 2024, authorities arrested 18-year-old Issac Mason of Long Island, New York, in Stony Brook. Mason was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and murder, and is being held in Suffolk County, New York, pending extradition to North Carolina. Motive has not been released, and it is unclear whether Mason and Wood knew each other.

Wood, born March 1, 1995, lived in Zebulon, North Carolina. Funeral arrangements were handled by Harris-Wheless Memorial Funeral Home & Cremation Services. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Wake Forest Police Department tip line at 919-435-9610; callers may remain anonymous.

Did anyone in the Wake Forest or Zebulon area see or hear anything the early morning of August 17 that could help investigators?