Pembroke: Fourth suspect arrested in Halo Drive homicide

In Pembroke, sheriff's deputies found a man dead on Halo Drive early Thursday. Two people were charged that day. By Saturday evening, WPDE and WMBF both report an arrest of Meeghan L. Hammonds. WMBF also reports that Ronald D. Woods surrendered Saturday morning. That surrender is not in the other pages read here. Every count is an accusation. No one named here has been convicted.

Thursday was Nov. 12, 2026. That calendar date is a reading of the word Thursday in the first accounts. Those pages did not print Nov. 12.

The man was 35 and of Pembroke. The first Robesonian staff report spelled the name Kyle Ethan Flannigan. WMBF's Nov. 12 story shortened it to Kyle Flannigan. The later Robesonian staff report, WPDE, and WMBF's Saturday evening story spell it Kyle Ethan Flanagan, except the evening story drops Ethan. Nothing here picks which spelling a warrant or a death record uses.

What WMBF reported Saturday evening

WMBF News Staff's story says it was published at 5:33 p.m. Eastern on Nov. 14. The page also showed an Updated label. A clock for that update was not a separate time in the line read here.

The station attributes the account to the sheriff's office and says investigators arrested five people. It says Woods, 31, surrendered to homicide investigators there on Saturday morning. It says Hammonds, 46, was arrested the same morning by Hoke County deputies at a home on Highway 211 North in Red Springs. The copy has no house number. None is added.

The counts named for Woods, Hammonds, Barrett Parks, 61, Bradley Locklear, 28, and Shannon Lowery, 34, match the three already listed for Locklear and Lowery. It says all five are from Hoke County. It does not print Parkton, Shannon, or Red Springs. Those towns stay with the earlier pages that used them.

Hammonds, Locklear, and Lowery are at the Robeson detention center, and the story says bond was not set, the station writes. Parks is in the Hoke County jail on the same no-bond terms. The story does not say where Woods is held, and it does not print a bond for him. A photo caption names the five. The picture is not used.

The Thursday line is around 6:43 a.m. on Halo Drive in Pembroke, for an unresponsive person. The name is Kyle Flanagan, 35, of Pembroke. The Homicide Division is still on the case, the station says, and the Hoke County Sheriff's Office assisted with the arrests. The phone number is 910-671-3100. The story does not add 911.

That surrender is this station's account. WPDE's page, re-read Saturday evening and still stamped 9:26 a.m., still says investigators are searching for Woods. The Robesonian staff report dated Nov. 13, re-read the same evening, still lists Hammonds and Woods as wanted. A look through robesoncountysonc.gov that evening did not turn up a release naming either person. Other outlets have not yet reported the surrender.

What WPDE reported Saturday

Tonya Brown's story is stamped Saturday, Nov. 14, 2026, at 9:26 a.m. The page text retrieved here does not print a time zone.

WPDE reported Saturday, citing the sheriff's office, that Hammonds was arrested early Saturday by Hoke County deputies at a home along Highway 211 North in Red Springs. The station said she is 46 and of Parkton. The counts it lists are first-degree murder, felony conspiracy, and robbery with a dangerous weapon. It said she is held without bond at the Robeson County Detention Center. The copy read here has no house number. None is added.

WMBF's 5:33 p.m. story, in the section above, is the second report of that arrest. The Robesonian page dated Nov. 13, re-read Saturday evening, still listed her as wanted.

WPDE also said Barrett Parks, 61, is in custody without bond at the Hoke County Detention Center. It did not print the middle initial B., the town of Shannon, a search warrant, or any narcotic count. It grouped him with Bradley Wayne Locklear, 28, and Shannon Lowery, 34, and said all three are of Hoke County. Locklear and Lowery, it said, are in the Robeson County jail without bond. Wayne is in this copy. No middle name for Lowery appears.

Investigators still seek Ronald D. Woods, 31, the station wrote. It said he is wanted on those three counts. It did not print a town. That is the morning page. It is not the surrender in WMBF's later story.

WPDE placed the Thursday call at about 6:43 a.m., at a home on Halo Drive in Pembroke, after a report of an unresponsive person. It used the Flanagan spelling and the age 35. It did not print "northwest of Pembroke" or a street number. It said the Homicide Division is still investigating. People with information about Woods, or about the case, were asked to call 911 or the sheriff's office at 910-671-3100.

What the later Robesonian page reported

A second Robesonian staff report is also dated Nov. 13, 2026. No time of day is printed on the copy opened for this update. The headline says a third Hoke County resident was arrested and that two people were still at large.

Citing the sheriff's office, the paper said Barrett B. Parks, 61, of Shannon, was arrested Friday while the Hoke County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant. Friday, read against a page date of Nov. 13, is Nov. 13, 2026. The arrest sentence does not print that calendar date. The counts named for him match the three already listed. The paper said he also faces narcotic charges in Hoke County, and it did not name them. Its verb for the jail is "will be held," without bond, at the Hoke County Detention Center. WPDE's verb is "is being held" at that jail.

On that page, Hammonds, 46, and Woods, 31, were wanted on the three counts. The sentence does not repeat Parkton, and it does not give Woods a town.

The paper's Thursday line is again about 6:43 a.m. on Halo Drive, northwest of Pembroke. This version says deputies were sent for a person who was unresponsive, and that the man was dead when they arrived. It uses Flanagan. It still describes a robbery that ended in a fatal shooting. The first staff report had said the call was for a person who had been shot. The two descriptions of the call stay separate here.

In the arrest paragraph, Locklear and Lowery are again both of Red Springs. The paper says they were arrested later Thursday and remain in the Robeson County jail without bond. The headline and the opening sentence call Parks the third Hoke County resident. Both wordings are in the same story. Neither line is dropped.

The paper said the Homicide Division is still on the case. It asked anyone who knew where Hammonds and Woods were, or who knew about the case, to call 910-671-3100. It did not add 911. The presumption and bond quotations from the sheriff's office release are in this staff report, as they were in the first one.

What the first reports said

The first Robesonian staff report is dated Nov. 13, 2026, and does not show a clock time. Its headline and its first sentence use a place label that the charge paragraph does not. The charge paragraph says both people are of Red Springs. The first version of this file followed the charge paragraph.

The paper said the sheriff's office reported that homicide investigators made the arrests in a robbery that resulted in a fatal shooting. On Thursday, at about 6:43 a.m., deputies went to Halo Drive, northwest of town, for a person who had been shot. The man was dead when they arrived. The name on that page is Kyle Ethan Flannigan.

The paper names Locklear, 28, and Lowery, 34, both of Red Springs, on the three counts, and says both were in the Robeson County Detention Center without bond. On that page, Hammonds, 46, of Parkton, was wanted. The paper did not say she was in custody. It gave the phone number 910-671-3100 and said the Homicide Division was investigating.

A release quoted there says every person is presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law, and that the post is not an opinion of guilt. The same release says the sheriff's office does not set bond. A judge or magistrate does, under N.C. General Statute 15A-532.

What WMBF reported

Gianna Cognetti's story carries a published time of 10:09 p.m. Eastern on Nov. 12. The modified time is the same instant. The page also showed a relative "Updated" label. Because the machine times match, nothing here describes a later change to that story.

WMBF wrote that deputies charged two people in a robbery that ended in a fatal shooting. It placed the call in the area of Pembroke, around 6:43 a.m. Thursday, and identified the man found dead as Kyle Flannigan, 35. It did not print the middle name Ethan, the street, or the words "northwest of Pembroke."

It identified the people charged as Bradley Locklear, 28, and Shannon Lowery, 34, of Red Springs, on the same three counts. Wayne is not in this copy. Meeghan Hammonds, 46, was wanted for those counts, the station wrote, attributing that line to the sheriff's office. Parkton is not in this story. Neither is a jail, a bond, or the Homicide Division. The phone number matches. The presumption quotation does not appear.

What these accounts leave open

Later pages that cite the sheriff's office use Flanagan. The earlier Robesonian page and WMBF used Flannigan. Nothing read here says which spelling is on a death record.

For Locklear and Lowery, the Robesonian charge paragraphs say Red Springs. WPDE says those two, plus Parks, are of Hoke County. The later Robesonian page says Parks is of Shannon. WPDE and the first Robesonian page say Hammonds is of Parkton. WMBF's evening story says all five are from Hoke County. No hometown is selected here.

No story printed a house number on Halo Drive or along Highway 211. No account read here gave a motive, a relationship, or a description of property taken. No court date or lawyer appears. A town for Woods, other than WMBF's Hoke County line, is not on these pages. A clock for the Friday arrest, beyond the word Friday, is not there. A clock for the Saturday arrest of Hammonds, beyond early Saturday morning on WPDE and Saturday morning on WMBF, is not there. A jail line and a bond for Woods are not in the WMBF story.

A charge is an accusation. That includes the counts against Locklear, Lowery, Parks, and Woods, the counts WPDE reported against Hammonds, and the narcotic counts the later Robesonian page mentioned without naming them. The sheriff's office, in the release The Robesonian quoted, said the post is not a finding of guilt.

People with information can call the Robeson County Sheriff's Office at 910-671-3100. WPDE also said callers can use 911. Triangle Local is not that office and not an emergency service. If someone is in danger, call 911.

Related coverage

Other Robeson County stories are on the county page. A different case, the arrest after a missing Horry County teenager was found in Lumberton, is not this shooting: earlier file.

Photos

Text-only. No image from The Robesonian, WMBF, or WPDE is used. Booking photographs are not used.