Robert Page faces multiple felony accusations after investigators connected three shootings and two alleged carjacking attempts from the same Sunday morning.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A judge ordered 52-year-old Robert Page held without bond after prosecutors accused the Fayetteville man of a chain of crimes spanning three shooting scenes, two attempted vehicle thefts and three wounded women during the morning of Aug. 30.
The court action brought together allegations that had initially been investigated by both the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office and Fayetteville police. City authorities reported charges including two counts of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of discharging a weapon into occupied property and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. Additional allegations included robbery with a dangerous weapon, attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon, possession of stolen property and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Separate sheriff’s office allegations stemmed from the first shooting at a residence. Page has not been convicted of the charges, and they remain accusations unless proven beyond a reasonable doubt or resolved through a plea.
The division between the cases helps explain why early reports did not always give the same total number of charges. The alleged conduct crossed agency lines: sheriff’s deputies handled the first scene on Messenger Street, while city police responded to the Hardee’s and Food Lion shootings. As investigators connected those incidents, Page appeared in court on matters arising from more than one case. Local reporting said a judge ordered him held without bond during the initial proceedings. The available reporting reviewed through Oct. 19 did not establish that a trial, plea or final judgment had since resolved the prosecution.
Prosecutors have portrayed the three encounters as connected but not identical. Cumberland County District Attorney Billy West said the first episode involved an apparent domestic incident with Page’s girlfriend. The next two women, according to West, appeared to have encountered the accused man by circumstance rather than through any known prior relationship. That difference is central to the prosecution’s account because it separates the personal context of the first shooting from the attempted carjackings that authorities say followed. Officials have not publicly identified one motive that explains the entire sequence, and they have not said the later two women were chosen in advance.
The last of the three scenes was outside a Food Lion on McArthur Road, where police found 24-year-old Isabella “Izzy” Dolin wounded. Her family told local reporters that she had stopped for coffee before work and did not know the man who approached her. Dolin’s sister, Leighanna Bullard, said the stranger demanded the car, pushed Dolin during the encounter and shot her in the face. According to the family’s account, he then tried to operate Dolin’s vehicle but could not get it started. The failed attempt meant the accused man left without her car, but Dolin required emergency treatment and was later flown to UNC Medical Center.
The Food Lion episode also produced one of the investigation’s key public eyewitness accounts. Derrick Hicks told WRAL that he approached Dolin after seeing that she was hurt and saw the man at the scene leave as he moved closer. Hicks remained with Dolin until paramedics arrived and provided assistance. Bullard later credited him with helping her sister during the critical period before first responders took over. Hicks said he viewed his actions as an ordinary effort to help rather than as heroism. Police have not publicly suggested that Hicks knew either Dolin or Page before the encounter.
Immediately before the grocery-store shooting, authorities say Page had been at a Hardee’s on Ramsey Street. Fayetteville officers were called there at about 7:12 a.m. for reports of a shooting and attempted carjacking. Prosecutors alleged that Page tried to take a vehicle occupied by a couple and shot the woman inside. By the time police arrived, the suspected gunman had left. The injured woman was taken for medical treatment, and she was later reported in stable condition. Authorities have not publicly identified her in the reports reviewed for this article, preserving a degree of privacy around the second victim even as the criminal allegations have entered court.
The prosecution’s alleged chain begins minutes earlier. At roughly 7:03 a.m., sheriff’s deputies responded to the 700 block of Messenger Street after a 911 report of a shooting. They found a woman with a gunshot wound. Warrants later identified her as Page’s girlfriend, local outlets reported. Prosecutors allege Page left in her vehicle after the shooting. That alleged theft is significant to the later cases because authorities say the same morning then shifted from a residential domestic episode to attempts to obtain additional vehicles at the Hardee’s and Food Lion.
Police said Page was located soon after the final shooting with help from witness information and the Fayetteville Police Department’s Crime Information Center. West said the defendant surrendered without incident once officers established his location following the carjacking attempts. Investigators also located the vehicle believed to have been used during the sequence in the Ramsey Street area. The quick arrest did not settle the factual questions surrounding the shootings, but it allowed investigators to focus on reconstructing the timeline, gathering evidence from three scenes and determining which alleged acts belonged in the separate city and county cases.
The most detailed information about the victims’ medical conditions came from Dolin’s relatives. Her family said she would need reconstructive surgery and that the full course of treatment remained uncertain soon after the shooting. WRAL reported that one of the women wounded at the commercial locations remained at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center while another was flown to UNC Medical Center. All three women were reported in stable condition by Sunday night. Officials did not release similarly detailed long-term updates for Page’s girlfriend or the Hardee’s victim, and the reporting reviewed does not support assumptions about their later medical outcomes.
Page’s background became an additional subject of reporting after court documents were reviewed. WRAL said those records identified him as a validated member of the Eight Trey Crips and showed a criminal history extending more than two decades, including prior breaking-and-entering and felony-larceny matters. Former U.S. Attorney Michael Easley Jr. explained that gang validation generally requires criteria showing a continuing association. He also stressed that such a label does not by itself establish that a particular crime was gang-directed or intended to benefit a gang. No verified reporting reviewed for this article established a gang motive for the Aug. 30 shootings.
That distinction is especially important in a criminal case because background information cannot substitute for evidence proving the charged conduct. The prosecution must establish the elements of each offense tied to each scene, while Page retains the right to contest the state’s evidence. The presence of several locations, different victims and two investigating agencies means the case rests on a combination of witness accounts, charging documents, scene evidence and the alleged movements between locations. Public reporting has described the broad timeline, but authorities have not released every piece of evidence or a complete explanation of what they contend prompted the initial shooting.
For the women who survived, the legal process began while recovery was still underway. Dolin’s family said she faced surgery and an uncertain period of medical care after what had started as a stop for coffee. The other two women were also reported alive and stable in the immediate aftermath. As of the most recent reliable reporting located through Oct. 19, Page remained publicly described as a defendant held without bond in the pending cases. No later verified report reviewed for this article established a conviction, acquittal or dismissal, leaving the allegations to be decided through the court process.
Author note: Last updated October 19, 2026.