On the evening of August 15, 2025, Jamie Jones, 53, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was shot and killed outside a home on the 1900 block of Poplar Drive. Officers dispatched just after 5:15 p.m. found Jones in the front yard with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene after life-saving measures. A call for help was placed around 5:17 p.m., and the location is a residential block off Hope Mills Road.

Investigators quickly focused on events inside the household and identified a family connection between the victim and the suspected shooter. By the next day police announced an arrest: 29-year-old Calvin Foster Jr., Jamie Jones’s son-in-law, was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder and booked into the Cumberland County Detention Center. Records and reports indicate he was held without bond while detectives processed evidence and interviewed people connected to the family.

The known facts leave questions about motive, witness accounts, and the exact sequence that led to the shooting. If anyone knew Jamie Jones or has information about what happened on Poplar Drive that evening, please share what you can with authorities.