Officials say the North Carolina restaurant shooting that left three dead was highly premeditated, with the suspect tied to anti-LGBTQ claims.

Police named 40-year-old Nigel Max Edge as the suspect in a Saturday mass shooting in North Carolina that killed three people and injured five, who are still receiving care.

A North Carolina man apprehended after shooting up a waterfront bar in the seaside town of Southport on Saturday night — killing three people and wounding eight others — was a conspiracy theorist obsessed with “LGBQT” “terrorists” colluding to “traffic” him.

The suspected gunman who opened fire at a crowded dockside restaurant in North Carolina — killing three people and injuring eight others — has been identified.

Nigel Max Edge, 39, faces multiple charges, including three counts of first-degree murder, after a shooting at Southport Yacht Basin left three dead.

Accused gunman Nigel Edge, formerly named Sean DeBevoise, once accompanied American Idol star Kellie Pickler to the CMT Music Awards, it has emerged.

Nigel Edge, a former Marine with PTSD, allegedly opened fire from a boat at a Southport bar on September 27, 2025, killing three and injuring five. Edge, who legally changed his name, previously sued singer Kellie Pickler,

Nigel Max Edge was charged for the shooting at a North Carolina waterfront bar on Saturday, which claimed the lives of three people.