Gregory Harris Jr., 22, was shot and killed on July 25, 2017, in the parking lot of Café 71 in Lumber Bridge, North Carolina. Deputies found him around 1 a.m. near the gas pumps; he was already deceased when emergency personnel arrived. The Robeson County Sheriff’s Office Homicide Division opened an investigation.

Investigators say Harris had met with several other men in the parking lot to discuss a problem involving one of the men and the girlfriend of Steven Lewis Lugo-Perez. During a verbal altercation, Lugo-Perez, who was armed, shot Harris. No one else was injured. Lugo-Perez, a Fayetteville resident, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and held in the Robeson County Detention Center on a $100,000 secured bond. Authorities reviewed video surveillance and conducted interviews, but no witnesses were at the scene to provide additional detail.

If anyone saw activity in the Café 71 parking area that night or has information about the incident, please come forward.