Fourteen-year-old Gregory Lacorde Holmes was killed on August 11, 2022, in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was found with a gunshot wound in an apartment in the 3100 block of Southwest Boulevard at the Birch Townhomes complex near West Charlotte High School and was pronounced dead at Atrium Main.

According to the investigation, Gregory was wrestling with friends inside the apartment when a gun one friend had went off, fatally striking him. A juvenile suspect was taken into custody the next day and charged with murder; that juvenile is currently held in a juvenile detention facility. Gregory attended Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School and was an active youth football player; his family described him as full of life.

Anyone with information is asked to contact a homicide detective or share an anonymous tip with Crime Stoppers. Did anyone in the Birch Townhomes area that night see or hear anything that could help the investigation?