On the evening of Thursday, August 20, 2026, 24-year-old Kiana T. Jones of Rowland, North Carolina, was found deceased from a gunshot inside a vehicle on the 100 block of Indian Heritage Road in Lumberton. Deputies from the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office responded around 9:50 p.m.; the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office Homicide Division opened the investigation.

Investigators identified a suspect and on Saturday, August 22, 2026, Cedrione K. McDowell, 22, of Lumberton, was arrested with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Carolinas Fugitive Task Force. McDowell has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with Jones’s death, attempted first-degree murder related to another occupant, Martev Gunter of St. Pauls, who was not injured, and discharging a weapon into an occupied vehicle. He was being held at the Robeson County Detention Center without bond.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office Homicide or Criminal Investigation divisions.