Cary Police Arrest Third Suspect in September Shooting at Bargate Drive Apartments

Cary Pines Apartments off Kildaire Farm Road was the scene of a midday shooting on Sept. 27, 2025, when officers arrived just after 12:15 p.m. to find an adult male with a gunshot wound; he was rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition. Six months and three arrests later, the case has reached Wake County Superior Court.

Billy James Adell Jr., 46, of Burlington, was taken into custody on April 8 and remains in the Wake County Detention Center. A Wake County grand jury had already moved against him before that arrest: Adell was indicted in March 2026 on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, one of the gravest assault charges under North Carolina law.

His arrest added more weight to the case. Once Adell was in custody, Cary police issued two additional warrants against him for breaking and entering and felony conspiracy, charges the department explicitly linked to the earlier arrests of co-defendants Omunique Anna-Nickole Hogan, 20, and Jaylen Brown, 24. Both are also Burlington residents. The conspiracy and breaking-and-entering counts signal that investigators believe the shooting at Cary Pines was not a chance encounter but a coordinated act involving multiple people who entered the property with intent.

Hogan was the first suspect taken into custody, arrested Oct. 14, 2025, on the same assault charge. Court records show she was denied bond. Brown followed as the second arrest, also charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. With Adell in custody, all three defendants are now simultaneously held at the Wake County Detention Center, more than six months after the shooting.

The fact that all three suspects share Burlington as their listed home address, a city roughly 50 miles west of the Bargate Drive complex, lends weight to the theory that this was not a random act of violence at the apartments. Cary police had initially described the Sept. 27 shooting as an isolated incident with no broader threat to the public, a characterization the layered felony charges now complicate.

April 27, 2026 is the next critical date: all three defendants are scheduled for arraignment in Wake County court on the grand jury indictment. That proceeding will determine how each enters a plea and sets the track toward either negotiation or trial. Cary police have stated the investigation remains open, leaving the door ajar for additional evidence or charges before the court date arrives.