ROBESON COUNTY, N.C. (WCSC/WMBF) – Deputies in North Carolina are investigating a mass shooting that erupted during a large party just outside of the town of Maxton, deputies say.
The Robeson County Sheriff’s Office posted on its Facebook page early Saturday morning that a total of 13 people had been shot, two of whom were confirmed dead.
Authorities identified the two victims as Jessie Locklear Jr., 49, and Nehemiah Locklear, 16, both of Lumberton, WMBF-TV reported.
Multiple additional victims arrived at Scotland Health Care in Laurinburg and UNC Health Southeastern Medical Center in Lumberton.
Several of the other victims were critically injured, deputies said.
Dispatchers reportedly received multiple calls about the shooting on Dixon Drive just outside the town of Maxton at around 1:15 a.m. Saturday, Robeson County Sheriff Burnis Wilkins said.
Wilkins said they learned that a flyer had gone out about a large Halloween party with a DJ and some alcohol involved.
“I’m not sure the numbers they were expecting, but from what we gather from interviews, there was over 300 people here,” he said.
As deputies were arriving on the scene, more than 150 people were leaving the area, Wilkins said.
Wilkins said based on witness reports, several people were shooting at each other “with no regard of the crowd that was there.”
He said no arrests have been made but that they do have persons of interest.
However, he said some people who attended the party were not cooperating with the investigation.
“Which is sadly common for a situation like this where you have this many people here,” he said, calling it “unfortunate” because a similar shooting a year or two ago also involved people who did not want to talk abd that case is still an unsolved murder.
The sheriff’s office asked anyone with information or who has video of the shooting to call their investigators at 910-671-3100.
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