Shooting in Fairlawn kills Blacksburg man

The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office is looking for information concerning whomever is responsible for the shooting death of a man on Sunday morning.

About 1 a.m. July 30, 2023, deputies were called to the 7000 block of Overlook Lane in the Fairlawn section of the county about a man who had been shot. Deputies found 24-year-old Mathew Cameron Carper of Blacksburg with a gunshot wound, sitting inside a vehicle. Carper was flown to Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where he died as a result of the gunshot wound.

Witnesses told deputies a fight had broken out during a gathering at a home on Overlook Lane. Shortly after the fight, they heard a gunshot and people were running from the scene.

Detectives are asking any witnesses or people who were at the Overlook Lane address to contact the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office at 540-980-7800 or the anonymous tip line at 540-980-7810.