Donald Bernard Lowery Jr., a 35-year-old man from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was shot and killed on May 22, 2021. He was sitting in his car outside the On Your Way Mart on East 12th Street when two males approached and fired several rounds into the vehicle. Lowery was taken to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center but died of his injuries.

Winston-Salem police used surveillance footage to identify suspects; two teenagers were later apprehended. One was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping in an unrelated Greensboro incident, while the other faced charges for firing into an occupied vehicle. The department says the investigation remains ongoing and has asked the public for information.

Lowery’s death was the city’s 13th homicide that year and has had a deep impact on his family and the community. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to come forward.