On June 8, 2025, just after 2 a.m., police and medics were called to the Outlaw Motorcycle Club House on North Main Avenue in Newton, North Carolina, where they found two people shot. Thirty-two-year-old Jordan Matthew Cassel, male and White/Caucasian, was rushed from the scene to Catawba Valley Medical Center and died of his wounds; the second victim was initially transported locally and then airlifted to Atrium Health in Charlotte in critical condition.
The early-morning gunfire shattered the quiet on the north side of town and drew multiple agencies to the clubhouse as the crime scene expanded across the parking lot and roadway.
Investigators documented heavy firepower at the site, estimating that more than three dozen rounds had been discharged. Within two days, authorities publicly identified the man who died as Jordan Matthew Cassel, age 32, of Albemarle, confirming the timeline of events that began with the frantic 911 calls and ended with a hospital pronouncement. The location—an Outlaws Motorcycle Club property—anchored the inquiry from the start, as detectives canvassed the area, collected shell casings, and secured surveillance footage from nearby businesses in the hours after the shooting.
Detectives soon focused on a rival motorcycle club as potential suspects. In the minutes after the gunfire, dispatchers alerted surrounding officers that a rival group might be involved, and in the following days investigators said disputes between the Pagan’s Motorcycle Club and the Outlaws preceded the deadly volley. By late June and into July, the investigation had widened: SWAT teams raided a Pagan’s clubhouse in Caldwell County, and court filings described an SUV believed to have been used in the attack—steps that underscored a working theory of a planned drive-by rather than a spontaneous barroom fight. Despite the raids and seized evidence, authorities had not announced any arrests in connection with the killing of Jordan Matthew Cassel, age 32, male, by late July reporting; the case remained an active homicide investigation centered on inter-club conflict.
