Billy Craig Carter, 47, of Sanford, North Carolina, was shot during an altercation with his neighbor on June 19, 2018, and died of his injuries on July 5, 2018, at the SECU Jim and Betsy Bryan UNC Hospice Home in Pittsboro after being treated at UNC Hospitals. He was found by his truck at the scene with a single gunshot wound and had been taken to the hospital by air.

The neighbor involved is identified as 46-year-old Mark Christopher Patterson. Patterson was initially charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury; those charges were later upgraded to first-degree murder and he was held without bond in the Lee County jail. The shooting reportedly grew out of a dispute between the two men at Patterson’s home on Family Farm Lane.

Carter was born October 21, 1970, in Lee County. He enjoyed hunting and fishing and is survived by his parents Billy Joe Carter and Edna Earle Sloan Carter, his wife Stephanie Solis Carter, son Richard Craig CJ Carter, daughters JoHanna Grace Carter and Brittnay Nicole Oldham, and sisters Pamela Joan Carter Mason and Penny Elaine Carter.