Wendell “Wilkie” Oxendine of the Lumbee Tribe, was shot and killed in Maxton, North Carolina on September 28, 1991 during a shoot out between two brothers.

Craig Lee Bullard, 27, a Lumbee man, was shot and killed in Maxton, NC, in July 1999. His case ended in a mistrial after the jury couldn’t reach a verdict.

Margaret Lois Bell was a Lumbee woman who was found murdered in her Robeson County, North Carolina home in 1996. Nearly 30 years later, DNA evidence led to the arrest of a suspect. Kenneth Delton Locklear was charged in 2025 and was taken into custody, but died in jail before his trial, prompting the North Carolina SBI to investigate his death.

William Jerome Williamson, a 34-year-old member of the Lumbee Tribe, was fatally shot during a birthday gathering in Shannon, North Carolina, on July 14, 2018. Christopher Ryan Locklear was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in connection with his death.