A Cumberland County jury found a man guilty of a lesser murder charge last week in a 2021 fatal shooting at a Fayetteville apartment complex.
Myshon Lamar Jackson, 22, of Broadway, was sentenced to 20 to 25 years in prison for killing Omar White, 26, of Virginia. Though Jackson was charged with first-degree murder, after three days of testimony and about 13 hours of deliberation, a Superior Court jury found him guilty of second-degree murder.
His codefendant in the killing, Juan Robert Maddox, 23, of Fayetteville, pleaded guilty in November to second-degree murder, as well as a charge of second-degree kidnapping in a parallel case and an unrelated charge of fraud. He was sentenced to at least 18 years in prison. As part of his plea agreement, he testified against Jackson at trial.
The killing of Omar White
According to warrants in the case, White was shot four times Feb. 9, 2021, as he sat in a vehicle in the parking lot of building 4804 at the Vue Apartment Homes off Scotland Drive.
White was found by Fayetteville police officers lying in the parking lot. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. The autopsy revealed he had been shot in the face and neck and twice in the back.