On the evening of June 30, 2025, Jesus Carranco, a 34-year-old male from Albemarle, North Carolina, was found fatally shot inside a home on the 1600 block of Amhurst Street. Officers with the Albemarle Police Department were dispatched just after 5:30 p.m. to what investigators described as a domestic dispute. Inside, they discovered two men—Jesus Carranco, 34, and Lucio Carranco, 33—who were pronounced dead at the scene from gunshot wounds.
Police arrested 23-year-old Alex Jamies Meras at the scene. He was charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder; the attempted charge involved a female victim, according to reporting that summarized the police release. Meras was booked into the Stanly County jail without bond, with an initial court date noted for July 14. Local coverage in the days that followed reiterated those charges and the domestic-dispute context as the investigation continued.
News of the killings quickly gave way to mourning and formal remembrances. Under his full name, Jesus Carranco-Martinez, age 34, was listed in funeral notices that confirmed his date of death as June 30, 2025, and announced services at Stanly Funeral & Cremation Care the following week, with burial to follow in New London. These notices anchored the timeline and identified him in the community by his family name.
In the days after the shooting, relatives and friends organized public tributes and support, including an online fundraiser to help cover funeral expenses, reflecting the shock and grief surrounding the loss of Jesus Carranco, 34, and the parallel loss of Lucio Carranco, 33, in the same incident. Crowdsourced memorial pages and local broadcasts preserved their names and the basic facts while authorities withheld further details about motive, urging patience as the case moved into the courts.
