Curtis Lee Locklear, 55, was shot on December 24, 2024, at about 5:39 p.m. in the 100 block of Nettie Drive in Shannon, North Carolina. Deputies from the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office found him with a gunshot wound; he was taken to a nearby medical center and later died of his injuries.

Investigators arrested 32-year-old Timothy Griffin of Fayetteville shortly after arriving at the scene. Griffin was initially charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and discharging a firearm inside of an enclosure to incite; after Locklear’s death those charges were upgraded to second-degree murder. Griffin is being held without bond at the Robeson County Detention Center and the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office Homicide Division, with assistance from the Fayetteville Police Department, is leading the investigation.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office at 910-671-3170 or 910-671-3100. Was anyone in the Shannon area on Nettie Drive that evening who saw or heard anything relevant?