GREENSBORO, N.C. — Greensboro police said the four surviving victims have been identified and released from the hospital Friday.
The four men injured in Tuesday night's shooting have been identified; Shanobi Carpenter, 21, Willy Lee Blackstock, 22, Orlando Evon Daniel, 23, and Damarquel Ty'reek Jackson, 24.
Police said the shooting happened on Circle Drive. 15-year-old Ronaldlee Snipes and 19-year-old Kaneycha Turner, a freshman at North Carolina A&T, were killed. Four others were injured.
One of the four injured is in critical condition.
Police said in a briefing Wednesday that a block party was happening during the time of the shooting. They are asking anyone who saw something to come forward with information. You can call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 336-373-1000.
Former Coach Remembers Kaneycha Turner
Turner was a freshman at the university, studying Management/Business Administration. She went to Statesville High School. She played basketball and ran track. Her high school coach, Greg Stewart, said she was a motivated athlete.
"She was very athletic, very coachable, she was well-liked among all of her players and students at Statesville high school," Stewart said.
He said the news has been heartbreaking for the whole community.
"When I heard that news it just seemed like everything stopped, an individual I had known and you know very bright future just taken away from us," said Stewart. "Her passing is something that's going to affect the whole community."
Police said Turner wasn't at the gathering when the shooting happened.
Neighbors React to Shooting
WFMY News 2 spoke with a resident in the area who was home during the shooting.
"We were in the process of getting ready to go over there and then we just heard this really loud boom and after that, it was just sudden back-to-back, like loud noises and we looked out the window and it was a whole bunch of people running in different directions," said McKenzie Palmer, who lives on Circle Drive.
Palmer said she was shaken up by what happened.
"It was very scary especially when they were running throughout the neighborhood," she added.
In Wednesday's briefing, Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan said, "what's happened in the last few days has been a setback in the community. I hope we will see the community come together."
NC A&T State University Chancellor Responds
Chancellor Harold L. Martin, Sr. released the following statement in wake of this shooting:
Our hearts are heavy today, as we mourn the death of one of our own. Kaneycha D. Turner, a first-year student, tragically lost her life last night in a senseless act of violence in which a young man, so far unidentified, was also killed and four other young men wounded.
Six years ago this month, A&T lost two students in an incident close to where Kaneycha and the deceased male lost their lives. When such disastrous history is repeated in our midst, we ignore it at our own peril. The environment for this week’s events will not get better unless we – students, colleagues, friends, you and I – take decisive steps to change it. That begins with encouraging our students to put their critical thinking skills to use and to modify their plans and behavior accordingly.
In our campus-wide Student Forum last week, I urged students to remember the words of A&T President Warmoth Gibbs, who famously said that at our university, “We teach students how to think, not what to think.” Students must now exercise that ability in social environments. They must ask themselves, Is this event safe? Do I know the people at this party? In the event of a problem of any kind, what might happen? If the answers to these questions are No or I Don’t Know, they must act accordingly. Video and police reports of the incidents in question compellingly show that any person in attendance should have had strong safety concerns. When a weapon is introduced in such an environment, the sad results are often predictable and always tragic.
We all know that this week has long been anticipated as a time of celebration. Large, out-of-control gatherings, on campus and off, have drawn law enforcement response due to fundamental safety issues for celebrants and neighbors. While no arrests have been made, the gatherings themselves have been too big and wholly unmanaged, several in residential areas where neighbors unexpectedly faced hordes of partiers, threats to their property and, in one case, imminent collapse of a structure holding far more people than it was designed to accommodate. This must stop.
In Aggieland, we often invoke the phrase, Aggies DO. Let us each demonstrate the truth of that slogan through the actions we take to ensure safety and enjoyment over the rest of this week.
NC A&T sent out an Aggie Alert, as the shooting happened near campus, but police have not connected the incident to the school in any way.
The Greensboro Police Department is collaborating with the university on what resources are needed to prevent future incidents.
This investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Greensboro/Guilford Crime Stoppers at 336-373-1000.