A late-night shooting in a New Bern shopping center parking lot left two men dead and a third wounded on January 21, 2023. At about 3:00 a.m., officers found three people with gunshot injuries at the Marketplace Shopping Center on South Glenburnie Road. Thirty-four-year-old Paul Anthony Edwards, Jr. died from multiple .223 caliber gunshot wounds, including a fatal torso wound.

Twenty-nine-year-old Mishawn Juiceman Akeem Jackson, Sr. was taken to CarolinaEast Medical Center and died of a single gunshot wound to the back of the head, a wound the autopsy report said suggested he was fleeing when shot. A third man, 34-year-old Clonzie Lee Nealy, Jr., was hospitalized in stable condition and later identified as the suspected gunman; he was arrested on January 30 and charged with two counts of murder.

Jackson is survived by his wife, Tashala Gilliam Jackson, and five children; his funeral was held January 27 at West Street Christian Church with interment at Evergreen Cemetery.