Tamika Tyler, 36, a Black/African American woman, was shot on the night of September 11, 2025, in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Around 10:57 p.m., police responded to a ShotSpotter alert on the 2500 block of Caledonia Circle and found Tamika Tyler and an adult man wounded by gunfire. Investigators determined the pair had been riding in a white Chevy Equinox—he was driving and Tamika Tyler was in the front passenger seat—when a man sitting behind them opened fire.
Medical help was summoned, and despite efforts to save her, Tamika Tyler succumbed to her injuries. The man with her was critically injured.
Detectives with the Fayetteville Police Department’s Homicide Unit quickly pieced together a timeline that began in the moving SUV and ended when the gunman fled on foot after the shooting. The violence, which unfolded off Murchison Road, rattled a residential stretch of Caledonia Circle where the wounded driver managed to steer into a stranger’s driveway while seeking help. The fatality and the circumstances—a sudden barrage of shots from the backseat—prompted an intensive search for the assailant and appeals for information from the public.
Within days, police identified the suspected shooter as Quantavious Marcieus Paige, 31, of Fayetteville. Warrants were issued on September 12 charging him with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. On September 16, officers with Fayetteville State University Police stopped a vehicle near Murchison Road and took Paige—riding as a passenger—into custody without incident. He was booked into the Cumberland County Detention Center and held without bond.
News outlets and public records have since echoed the police account, noting that the attack originated from the backseat and that the man driving remains a surviving victim of the same burst of gunfire. Community memorial pages mark September 11, 2025, as the date that Tamika Tyler, 36, lost her life to gun violence in Fayetteville, underscoring the shock and grief that followed. As of the latest updates, the named suspect has been arrested and charged, and the case proceeds through the courts.
