Wyatt Washington “Scooter” Mason III, 40, a Black/African American man from Garysburg, was shot and killed on September 15, 2025, in the town of Gaston, North Carolina. He was identified publicly by name and age in memorial and funeral notices that followed within days, confirming his connection to the Garysburg community and the timing of his death. The shooting occurred in Gaston, where records list him among those lost to gun violence on that date.
Details documented for that day place the fatal incident on the 100 block of North Bay Street in Gaston. Those entries—compiled from incident logs that index shootings by exact streets and blocks—mark the location and date but do not attribute a motive. They align with regional reporting that recognized the loss and spurred local remembrance in the days that followed, including funeral home announcements and guestbook entries that referred to him by his full name, nickname, and age.
As of October 14, 2025, authorities had not publicly announced an arrest in the killing of Wyatt Mason, 40, male, from Garysburg, nor had they named a suspect. The incident listings and memorial pages that corroborate his death and where it occurred contain no notice of charges or a person of interest, and no subsequent public-update record was found in accessible regional outlets.
