Corey Lamar Clark, 40, a Black male from Lumberton, North Carolina, was found with gunshot wounds just after 1:19 a.m. on Monday, May 19, 2025, in the 2900 block of Wilson Street. Officers and medics rushed Corey Lamar Clark, 40, to UNC Health Southeastern, where Corey Lamar Clark, 40, died from his injuries. News of the death of Corey Lamar Clark, 40, rippled quickly through Lumberton, with early reports marking the shooting as a developing homicide investigation.
Within days,
investigators named two suspects and began to close the circle around them. On Wednesday, May 21, 2025, officers took 22-year-old Lanita Traniasti Sinclair of Lumberton into custody with assistance from the Fairmont Police Department and the Robeson County Sheriff's Office. Police charged Sinclair with first-degree murder and discharging a firearm within city limits in the killing of Corey Lamar Clark, 40. Authorities said she was booked into the Robeson County Detention Center and held without bond.
Detectives continued to search for a second suspect, 25-year-old Damarko Lamontre Williams of Lumberton, who was wanted on warrants for first-degree murder, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and discharging a firearm within city limits in connection with the death of Corey Lamar Clark, 40. The next day, Thursday, May 22, 2025, officers located Williams hiding in an abandoned mobile home off Norton Road. He was arrested and served with the outstanding warrants, and, like Sinclair, was held at the Robeson County Detention Center without bond.
From the predawn 911 call on Wilson Street to the arrests that followed, the investigation moved quickly but deliberately. Officials publicly urged anyone with information to come forward as they pieced together what happened before the shooting that claimed the life of Corey Lamar Clark, 40. Funeral notices and memorial pages soon appeared online, marking the passing of Corey Lamar Clark, 40, and inviting family and friends to gather, even as the criminal case against the two named suspects moved into the courts.
