Noise Complaint Turns Into Deadly Shooting Hours Later At Lillington House Party

Halloween night in Lillington, North Carolina ended in tragedy this year. A 40-year-old woman is dead, a family is grieving, and the person who pulled the trigger is still out there.

What makes this harder to sit with is that law enforcement was already at that house hours before the shooting ever happened.

Deputies Were There at 1 a.m. and Left

Around 1:15 in the morning, Harnett County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a home on Murchison Lane after a loud music complaint. They spoke to people inside and left.

Less than three hours later, they were called back to the same address. This time, it was a shooting.

What Deputies Found When They Returned

At 3:59 a.m., deputies arrived to find Justina Nichole Hodges, 40, of Lillington, inside the residence with a gunshot wound. Bystanders were already trying to save her life.

Harnett County EMS took over but couldn’t reverse the damage. Hodges was pronounced dead at the scene just after 4:30 a.m…