On October 1, 2023, at about 1:09 a.m., Eden Police responded to a shooting outside The Rabbit Hole, a bar on North Hundley Street in Eden, North Carolina. Officers found 39-year-old Al Jamar Lindsey in the parking lot with multiple gunshot wounds; despite life-saving efforts he was pronounced dead at the scene. Reports say a physical fight between two women had occurred inside the bar; Lindsey was not involved, but amid the chaos he was approached and shot at close range.

Investigators identified 22-year-old Aaron Noel Johnson Marriott as the primary suspect; he surrendered to the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office on October 12, 2023, and was charged with first-degree murder. Eden authorities later arrested 49-year-old Tina Louise Lawson, owner of The Rabbit Hole, on charges including felony accessory after the fact to murder, felony aiding and abetting possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and misdemeanor possession of marijuana. A third person, Leslie Smith, was arrested and charged with felony accessory to murder.

Lindsey was born October 11, 1983, in Newark, New Jersey, and raised in Eden by his great-aunt Mary Olverson. He is survived by children D Z yair Irving, Zakiya Tinsley, and AAmir Lindsey and other relatives and friends. Does anyone with information about that night or the people involved want to come forward to the Eden Police Department?