Asheville police seek tips in March homicide of local resident

Investigators still need the witness, the timeline and the name of the person who shot Eric Lee Anderson Lordman Jr. outside Pisgah View Apartments. Months after the killing, Asheville police said detectives are following new leads and starting to receive lab results, but the case remains open and no arrest has been announced.

Lordman, 27, was found dead shortly after midnight on March 7 at the west Asheville complex near Granada Street. Police said officers responded around 12:20 a.m. and that Lordman died from multiple gunshot wounds. It was Asheville’s first homicide of 2026, and police have said the shooting was likely targeted.

The unanswered questions have made the case more than a single-crime investigation for residents at the 250-unit public-housing community managed by the Housing Authority of the City of Asheville. For people living at Pisgah View Apartments, the killing has been part of a broader fear that violence can reach into a neighborhood where families, older adults and longtime tenants are trying to build a sense of stability. The fact that the case is still active months later has kept that unease in place.

Police renewed their public appeal in June, a month recognized nationally as Gun Violence Awareness Month, and asked anyone with information to come forward. Investigators are especially looking for people who were near Granada Street, Pisgah View Apartments or the surrounding West Asheville area in the hours before and after the shooting. Even small details, such as a vehicle seen leaving the complex, a dispute heard that night or a social media post that places someone at the scene, could help detectives connect the remaining pieces.

Anyone with information can call the Asheville Police Department non-emergency line at 828-252-1110. Tips can also be submitted anonymously by texting TIP2APD to 847411 or through the TIP2APD smartphone app.

The city says most incident and crash reports from Jan. 1, 2003, to the present are available through its online records tools, and Asheville also maintains public dashboards that track crime trends and gun-discharge data. For a case that has already stretched across months, police are signaling that they still believe someone in the community knows what happened to Lordman and who was responsible.