Wesley Allen Swinnie, 23, was shot and killed on August 17, 2013, in the parking lot of a Burger King on U.S. 1 North in Aberdeen, North Carolina. He had been running errands with his father, William McCrimmon, and stopped to get a biscuit. After returning to the car Swinnie was shot multiple times by Adam Anthony White. Swinnie handed his phone to McCrimmon to call 911; while McCrimmon was on the line, White reloaded, approached Swinnie on the ground and shot him two to three more times in the face. Several witnesses ran to help but Swinnie died next to McCrimmon’s car.

Prosecutors linked the killing to an altercation two weeks earlier in Southern Pines in which White and his twin brother, Allan White, were cut by Swinnie. At trial White said he thought of that incident, snapped, and fired. Officers stopped White and his brother Miquale Green as they fled; White later admitted he shot Swinnie. A Moore County jury convicted Adam Anthony White of first-degree murder; he was sentenced to life without parole. Swinnie’s mother, Hilda, and sister, Stacey, testified at sentencing and expressed forgiveness.

Did anyone in the area witness activity in the Burger King parking lot before the shooting that hasn’t been shared publicly?