On the evening of July 22, 2023, at about 8:00 p.m., deputies responded to reports of a verbal disturbance in the 4200 block of Dudley Road in Fayetteville, North Carolina. They found 34-year-old Bryant Thomas King with a gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities later identified 20-year-old Hamzah Abdullah Thompson as the primary suspect and issued warrants for first-degree murder. Thompson was arrested without incident shortly after midnight on July 24, 2023, in Rockingham, North Carolina, and charged with first-degree murder.

Bryant King lived in Fayetteville and is survived by his children Bryant King Jr., Airreon Jones, Anthony Jones, and Aubreyona King; his father Leroy T. King Jr.; and siblings Francesca Whitted, Brittany King, and Jossie King. Funeral services were held August 12, 2023, at Greater First Baptist Church of Cedar Creek, with burial at Eureka Chapel Cemetery. The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate and asks anyone with information to come forward.

Does anyone in the Fayetteville area have information about events on Dudley Road that evening?