On the evening of August 17, 2025, Wesley Wilson, 29, a male from Fayetteville, was shot on Chinoak Drive in the Reilly Road Mobile Home Park. Officers responding just after 7:30 p.m. found him with a gunshot wound; he was taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Two other people were also discovered with gunshot wounds and were transported with injuries described as non-life-threatening.
Police identified the victim the next day as 29-year-old Wesley Wilson and said the shooting remained under investigation. The department asked anyone with information to contact a detective or submit an anonymous tip, underscoring how little was immediately known about what led to the gunfire.
Records of the incident list the location as the 7100 block of Chinoak Drive, within the Reilly Road Mobile Home Park, and note three people shot, with Wesley Wilson, age 29, killed. Community memorial pages also mark the loss of Wesley Wilson on August 17, 2025, in Fayetteville.
Obituary notices published later in August confirm that Wesley D. Wilson died on Sunday, August 17, 2025, at age 29, with services handled by a Fayetteville funeral home.
As of the latest reporting, police had not announced any arrests, nor publicly named a suspect or suspects, and the case remained an active homicide investigation.
