Raekwon Wilson, a 23-year-old Black man from Warsaw, North Carolina, was killed in the early morning hours of August 6, 2022, in a shooting on Boy Scout Lane in the Warsaw area of Duplin County. When deputies, the Warsaw Police Department, and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation responded, they found him dead at the scene. In the days that followed, the case moved quickly from shock and grief into a public manhunt.
Investigators began asking for help locating a man they said was connected to the shooting, turning the search into a tense wait for answers in a small community already reeling from the loss.
As Wilson’s family prepared to bury him, law enforcement publicly identified Carl Faison as the man they wanted to question. Authorities said he was believed to be from the Turkey Creek area of Sampson County and might have been driving a white Chevrolet Tahoe or a similar vehicle. A reward was offered for information, a sign that investigators were urgently trying to close the gap between the killing and whoever was responsible. That detail gave the case a sense of motion, as if the story had not gone cold in its first days but was instead building toward an arrest.
Nine days after the shooting, on August 15, 2022, the Duplin County Sheriff’s Office announced that Carl McDaniel Faison of Turkey, North Carolina, had been arrested in Wilson’s killing. He was charged with an open count of murder and possession of a firearm by a felon. Reports at the time said he was being held in the Duplin County Detention Center without bond. Public reporting about the case consistently tied his arrest directly to Wilson’s death, making him the central and only publicly identified suspect found in the online sources reviewed.
What remains striking about the case is how quickly it moved from a deadly shooting on a quiet Duplin County road to a named suspect, a public appeal for help, and then a murder charge. Wilson’s death was not left in the shadows for long, at least in terms of identifying a suspect. But in the public record available online, the clearest and most consistently reported developments center on the killing itself, the search for Faison, and his eventual arrest and charges. Clear public reporting on a later trial, conviction, or final court outcome was not readily found in the online sources reviewed, leaving the most visible part of the story frozen at the point where investigators said they had their man, but the broader legal ending was less clearly documented in accessible reporting.
