On July 17, 2023, 52-year-old Alvie Chavis Jr. was fatally shot in Fayetteville, North Carolina during an attempted armed robbery on the 300 block of Dallas Street. Chavis sustained a life-threatening gunshot wound and was later found deceased behind a residence in the 2000 block of Center Street.

Forty-four-year-old Andre Lewis was initially arrested and charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection with Chavis’s death, but that charge was dismissed after investigators concluded Lewis acted in self-defense under North Carolina’s Castle Doctrine, which allows defensive force against an intruder threatening death or serious bodily injury. Lewis later faced unrelated charges of possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of controlled substances and was held at the Cumberland County Detention Center with bail set at $10,000.

If anyone has information about the events on Dallas Street or the subsequent movements of Chavis that day, please share what is known.