On March 7, 2023, at about 7:30 a.m., 25-year-old Calvin Richard Lester Jr. was fatally shot in the parking lot of Fat Juniors Grill at 4900 Womack Road in Sanford, North Carolina. The restaurant was closed at the time; its employees and owners were not involved. Lester, a resident of Carthage, had just finished a work shift at the nearby Caterpillar facility when the shooting occurred.

Later that day law enforcement arrested 22-year-old Ar’mon Mandrell Jones of Fayetteville. Jones was charged with first-degree murder and held without bond in the Lee County Jail. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office, assisted by the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and the Fayetteville Police Department’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Team, asked anyone with information to contact them at 919-775-5531 or the tip line at 919-718-4577. The motive has not been released and the investigation remains ongoing.

Did anyone in the community know Calvin or see activity near Fat Juniors Grill that morning?