Qualla: 2025 Southport Shooting

2025 Southport Shooting: Introduction

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Around 9:30 on the night of September 27, 2025, a boat anchored near the American Fish Company in Southport's Yacht Basin. A concert was playing. The boat's pilot opened fire on the bar and then unanchored and sped west up the Intracoastal Waterway. Three people died. Six others were wounded. The first officer arrived four minutes after the first 911 call, by which time the boat was already gone. Southport's police chief, Todd Coring, whose grandfather and father had both held the same job, later said he never would have thought, in a million years, that this could happen on the waterfront where he grew up.

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2025 Southport Shooting: The Yacht Basin

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Yacht Basin was a working harbor once. By 2025 it had become Southport's entertainment district, with restaurants, a boat rental company, a tour operator, and a seafood market clustered along the water. The neighborhood drew over 850,000 visits in the year leading up to the a...

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2025 Southport Shooting: Four Minutes

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The first calls came in just after 9:30 p.m. Four minutes later, the first officer reached the scene. The shooter had left the bar a minute before that. Officers from Boiling Spring Lakes and Southport entered the building without knowing whether another shooter remained inside, ...

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2025 Southport Shooting: Nigel Edge

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The man arrested had been Sean William Debevoise until 2023, when he legally changed his name to Nigel Edge. He was born October 23, 1984, in Suffern, New York, and raised in nearby New City. He graduated from Clarkstown High School North in 2003 and served in the Marines from Se...

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2025 Southport Shooting: Warnings

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

In 2012, Edge had escorted country singer Kellie Pickler to the CMT Music Awards with his service dog Rusty. In February 2025, he sued Pickler, alleging she had tried to poison his drink. In May, he confronted a former classmate and friend at the man's workplace and accused him o...

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2025 Southport Shooting: What Was Left

Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Three families lost someone that night. Six wounded survivors, including three Oak Island residents and visitors from Afton, Virginia, Amityville, New York, and Wheaton, Illinois, were eventually released from the hospital. The last left on October 3. The local nonprofit Southpor...

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