Officer Roy Gene Turner Jr. was a 32-year-old Fayetteville Police Department officer killed while on patrol in a high-crime area at Moore Street and Hillsboro Street on the night of November 29, 2001. A member of the Neighborhood Improvement Team and a Persian Gulf War veteran, Turner was shot in the head and shoulder and died at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center early the next morning. He had served with the department for five years and is survived by a son, his parents, and a brother.

The investigation identified 24-year-old Quintel Martinez Augustine as the suspect through witness testimony. Augustine was charged with first-degree murder, and a jury found him guilty on the basis of malice, premeditation, and deliberation. On October 22, 2002, Augustine was sentenced to death. Turner’s funeral was held December 6, 2001, at the Cumberland County Auditorium; he was buried at Fayetteville Memorial Cemetery.

Did anyone who lived or worked near Moore and Hillsboro Streets in late 2001 see anything that could still help clarify what happened that night?