Keith McClure and Jasmionta Mackey are charged with the murder of Jeffery Carter in Gastonia.
GASTONIA, NC – Two men are charged in connection to the deadly shooting of a man who police say happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time in Gastonia.
Police say 22-year-old Keith McClure and 21-year-old Jasmionta Mackey are charged with the murder of 40-year-old Jeffery Carter.
Officers were called to Carter’s home on Hawkins Street around 3 am on April 19th. They found Carter shot in his front yard.
Investigators say the yard is several houses away from where people at a party got into a fight and started shooting.
“This was a tragic and senseless loss of life. Mr. Carter had no involvement in the altercation that led to this shooting. He was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time—standing in his own yard,” said Assistant Police Chief Nancy Brogdon. “We are grateful for the hard work of our detectives and the tips we’ve received from the public that helped bring about these arrests.”
Mackey has been arrested on more than two dozen charges in Gastonia since 2023.
Police believe the people involved in the fight had been at Legends on W. Main Avenue the night of April 18, 2025, before moving to the area of Proctor Street and Hawkins Street.
If you were at Legends or in the Proctor and Hawkins Street area during the early morning hours of April 19 and know anything that can help detectives, call the Gastonia Police Department at 704-866-6702 or Crime Stoppers of Gaston County at 704-861-8000. You don’t have to leave your name or testify and you could get a cash reward.
