On October 15, 2023, at about 3:30 p.m., a drive-by shooting at the ATEX Convenience Store on South Martin Luther King Drive in Lumberton, North Carolina, left 23-year-old Ebony Spruill and 23-year-old Demarko Williams with life-threatening injuries. Both were taken to UNC Health Southeastern; Ebony Spruill died there on October 16, 2023. Spruill was born February 29, 2000, and was a Lumberton resident; funeral arrangements were handled by Colvin Funeral Home and Cremations.

In the investigation, a 17-year-old male from Lumberton was arrested October 20, 2023, and charged with first-degree murder and attempted murder; he is being held in a juvenile detention facility. On October 25, 2023, 18-year-old Tyler Amir Young of Lumberton was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, multiple weapons and vehicle-related offenses, and is detained at the Robeson County Detention Center without bond. The Lumberton Police Department says it expects additional arrests and charges and asks anyone with information to contact Detectives Yvette Pitts or David Bullock at 910-671-3845.

Who in Lumberton might have seen the white four-door sedan or the shooting outside the ATEX Convenience Store?