Jeffrey Shawn Brock, 30, of Wilmington, North Carolina, was killed on June 26, 2021 after a domestic dispute that began two days earlier. On the night of June 24, 2021, an altercation with Amber Baird near the Cape Fear Plaza on Castle Hayne Road escalated. Baird called a friend, Woody Shepard, who arrived and allegedly shot Brock in the chest with a shotgun. Brock later died and his death was ruled a homicide.

Authorities charged Woody Shepard with first-degree murder after he turned himself in at the New Hanover County Detention Center. Amber Baird was charged with accessory after the fact and both were held without bond. A third person, George Christopher Smoke, was later arrested and charged with felony accessory after the fact to murder and conceal or fail to report a death; he is accused of taking the shotgun from Shepard after the shooting.

Jeffrey was remembered as a jokester who enjoyed imitating Jim Carrey and the Waterboy, a New Hanover High School graduate who studied art and history at UNC Pembroke and worked in construction and painting. Does anyone have information about the events around Castle Hayne Road on June 24–26, 2021?