Aaliyah Unique Isles, 18, a Black/African American female from Fayetteville, North Carolina, was found shot to death late on the morning of August 4, 2025, near the intersection of Talmage Drive and Tolarsville Road in the Tolarsville community outside St. Pauls. Deputies with the Robeson County Sheriff’s Office responded around 11:07 a.m.; Aaliyah Unique Isles, 18, was pronounced dead at the scene from an apparent gunshot wound as homicide investigators secured the area and began canvassing
for evidence and witnesses.
In the days that followed, authorities clarified that the investigation would be led by the Bladen County Sheriff’s Office, reflecting the tight county line geography of the crime scene and the flow of the inquiry across jurisdictions. Local reports situated the killing along roadways that bridge Robeson and Bladen counties, and investigators appealed for tips as family and friends prepared services that identified her as Aaliyah Unique Isles, 18, of Fayetteville, with a date of death of August 4, 2025.
Detectives ultimately announced a significant development: a juvenile suspect was taken into custody and charged with first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of Aaliyah Unique Isles, 18. The suspect was ordered held at a juvenile detention facility under a $2,000,000 secured bond while the case proceeds through the courts, a rare public glimpse into a prosecution that, because of the defendant’s age, is otherwise constrained by juvenile confidentiality rules.
Community memorial pages recorded the slaying of Aaliyah Isles, 18, in Saint Pauls on August 4, 2025, mirroring the official incident logs and mapping the loss to the crossroads where neighbors awoke to crime-scene tape and the quiet churn of a homicide investigation. Those entries—alongside the sheriff’s pleas for information—trace a stark arc from the roadside discovery to the arrest of a juvenile suspect, while leaving the deeper questions of motive and the precise sequence of events to the unfolding court record.
