Darden Kyle Rhodes, 51, a White man from St. Louis, Missouri, was fatally shot inside a company-owned residence in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on the morning of March 10, 2025. Officers were dispatched about 8:03 a.m. to the 1300 block of Sapona Road; officers found Rhodes with gunshot wounds in a bedroom and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Detectives with the Fayetteville Police Department’s Homicide Unit opened the investigation.

Rhodes had arrived in Fayetteville a few days earlier to help close local operations of Northwind Engineering, a company he co-owned with his brother, Derek Rhodes. The Sapona Road house was company lodging for employees.

Family members described the death as unexpected while Rhodes was finishing routine business; relatives said he was hardworking and devoted and that the trip was meant to tie up loose ends. Reports have not established whether anything was stolen, whether he had been involved in a dispute, or whether the responsible person entered from outside or was already familiar with the property. The Fayetteville Police Department called the case an active homicide investigation and appealed for information; no suspect, arrest, charge, trial or conviction has been announced. Did anyone in the Fayetteville area see or hear anything around the Sapona Road residence on March 9–10, 2025?