Tina Louise Nicholson, a 53-year-old African American woman and long-time Winston-Salem resident, was killed at her Ridgeback Drive home on May 13, 2021. She had worked at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center for more than 25 years. Investigators say multiple shooters arrived in a vehicle, got out, surrounded the house and opened fire, with roughly 20 to 30 shots reported. Officers found Tina inside with at least one gunshot wound and her husband, Robert Neely, said he awoke to the gunfire and later found her in the kitchen with multiple wounds.

A 20-year-old man, Traquan Javon Cheeseboro, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. Cheeseboro was found with a gunshot wound and left at the ambulance dock at the pediatric emergency room; he told investigators he blacked out and only remembered waking up at the hospital. Drops of his blood and a photograph of him on a recovered cell phone were linked to the scene. Investigators say at least four different guns were fired and suspect Cheeseboro was shot by another shooter. Motive and whether Tina was the intended target have not been determined.

Did anyone in the community see the vehicle or the shooters that night, or have information about why this house might have been targeted?