Authorities say the Aug. 30 violence moved from a home to two business parking lots before police arrested the 52-year-old suspect.

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A Fayetteville man is accused of shooting three women in a fast-moving series of attacks that began with his girlfriend and continued through attempted carjackings outside a Hardee’s and a Food Lion, leaving all three women wounded before officers arrested him, according to police, court reporting and local news accounts.

Robert Page, 52, was ordered held without bond after appearing in court following the Aug. 30 shootings. Fayetteville police and the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office have accused him of offenses connected with three separate shooting scenes that developed within a short period early that Sunday morning. The charges reported by local authorities include attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, discharging a weapon into occupied property, robbery with a dangerous weapon, attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon, possession of stolen property and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The allegations have not been proven in court.

The first call came shortly after 7 a.m. in the 700 block of Messenger Street, according to the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies responding to a report of a shooting found a woman suffering from a gunshot wound. Warrants later identified her as Page’s girlfriend, local reporting said. She was taken for medical treatment while the person investigators identified as the shooter had already left. Prosecutors later alleged that Page took his girlfriend’s vehicle after the shooting. Authorities have described that first episode as a domestic incident, but they have not publicly established a broader motive that explains why the violence allegedly continued at two unrelated commercial locations.

Within minutes, Fayetteville police were sent to the Hardee’s in the 6300 block of Ramsey Street. Investigators said Page arrived in the vehicle taken after the first shooting and attempted to take another vehicle. Prosecutors said a couple was at the restaurant when the attempted carjacking occurred and a woman in the vehicle was shot. Police arriving at the scene found the wounded woman, but the suspect had again left before officers reached the parking lot. Reporting from the initial investigation indicated that she was taken to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center for treatment.

The third confrontation unfolded soon afterward at a Food Lion on McArthur Road. There, police said another attempted carjacking ended with a woman being shot. Family members identified that victim as 24-year-old Isabella “Izzy” Dolin. Her sister, Leighanna Bullard, told local reporters that Dolin had made an ordinary stop for coffee before heading to work when a stranger approached her and demanded her car. According to Bullard’s account, Dolin initially did not grasp the seriousness of the demand. The encounter then became violent, and Dolin was pushed and shot in the face. Her family said the assailant also tried to start her vehicle but did not succeed.

Dolin’s injuries required extensive treatment, according to her family. She was initially among the women taken for emergency care and was later flown to UNC Medical Center, WRAL reported. Bullard said her sister faced reconstructive surgery and a lengthy recovery. Family members emphasized that Dolin had no known connection to Page before the encounter. Cumberland County District Attorney Billy West similarly characterized the two attacks at the commercial locations as involving people who appeared to have encountered the accused man by chance rather than because of a prior relationship. Authorities have not announced evidence establishing that either of those two women was specifically targeted in advance.

A bystander, Derrick Hicks, became part of the Food Lion response before emergency crews arrived. Hicks told WRAL that he saw the wounded woman and moved toward her. As he approached, he saw the man at the scene leave in a vehicle. Hicks then stayed with Dolin and provided assistance until first responders arrived. Dolin’s family later credited the stranger with helping her at a critical moment. Hicks rejected the idea that his actions made him extraordinary, describing his response as what an ordinary person should do when someone is badly hurt. His account supplied investigators and reporters with an eyewitness description of the final minutes of the alleged sequence before Page fled.

Police said they were able to locate Page with assistance from witnesses and the Fayetteville Police Department’s Crime Information Center. West said Page surrendered without incident once officers determined his location after the two attempted carjackings. The vehicle authorities believed he had been using was found in the Ramsey Street area, according to ABC11. The arrest brought an end to a sequence that investigators say crossed the jurisdictions of the sheriff’s office and city police, requiring the two agencies to connect an initial shooting at a residence with the later attacks at the restaurant and grocery store.

The charging picture developed as the two agencies investigated separate parts of the morning’s events. Fayetteville police publicly listed 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, along with robbery and firearms-related offenses. Other reporting described additional allegations connected with the Messenger Street shooting, producing different totals as the cases from the separate jurisdictions were assembled. The distinction matters because each charging document applies to particular alleged conduct, and the formal case can change as prosecutors review evidence. A judge nevertheless ordered Page held without bond during his initial court proceedings.

Separate court-record reporting added another issue to the case but did not establish a motive for the shootings. WRAL reported that records described Page as a validated member of the Eight Trey Crips. Former U.S. Attorney Michael Easley Jr., speaking generally about gang validation, said such a designation reflects multiple criteria suggesting an ongoing connection to a gang. He also cautioned that the designation did not show that the Aug. 30 violence had been ordered by a gang or committed for a gang’s benefit. WRAL said it sought clarification from Fayetteville police, the sheriff’s office and the FBI about the basis for the designation. The reporting did not establish that the alleged attacks were gang-directed.

The three shootings left investigators with different relationships to examine. The first victim was identified in warrants as Page’s girlfriend, giving that case an apparent domestic context. The women at the Hardee’s and Food Lion, by contrast, were described by prosecutors as people who had no apparent connection to the accused man and who encountered him while he was allegedly trying to obtain another vehicle. That distinction has made the attempted carjackings central to investigators’ account of how the morning unfolded. It has not, however, answered why prosecutors say Page began shooting or why violence allegedly accompanied attempts to take the vehicles. Officials had not publicly announced a complete motive for the sequence.

The available public reporting also leaves several medical details unresolved. All three women were reported in stable condition by Sunday night after the shootings, while Dolin’s family gave the most detailed account of any victim’s recovery and said she would need reconstructive surgery and continued care. Authorities did not publicly identify the woman shot at Hardee’s, and the name of the girlfriend wounded in the first incident was not broadly released in the reports reviewed for this article. Those limits leave the public record focused largely on the alleged chronology, the criminal charges and Dolin’s recovery rather than on the private medical circumstances of the other women.

Page remained the defendant in the criminal cases and is entitled to the presumption of innocence unless convicted. Searches of reliable public reporting through Oct. 19 did not locate a later substantive update establishing a trial result, plea or final disposition of the charges. The most recent verified accounts reviewed for this story continued to describe the case as pending, with Page held without bond following his initial court appearances and the shootings under investigation by Fayetteville police and the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office.

Author note: Last updated October 19, 2026.