Allen Wayne Fields, 53, of Lumberton, North Carolina, was found dead on December 3, 2018, in an abandoned house on Gardenia Drive. Fields, who was homeless, had been shot during a burglary.

Investigators identified three people connected to the incident. Levander Thompson, 51, of Lumberton, was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree burglary. Samantha Meszaros, 30, of Lumberton, was charged with first-degree burglary. Aaron Keith Locklear, 31, was later charged with accessory after the fact to murder and first-degree burglary and turned himself in a few days after the incident. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives assisted in the investigation.

The community was reported as deeply affected by Fields’s death. Does anyone have information about Fields’s movements in Lumberton or the abandoned properties on Gardenia Drive?