Noblake Lewis Taylor, 47, was shot and killed inside his apartment at Sunrise Towers on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on February 19, 2021. Forsyth County Emergency Medical Services responded but Taylor was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say the shooting followed a verbal altercation between Taylor and a 54-year-old acquaintance, Tony Rogers. Authorities report Rogers remained at the scene and was arrested by the Winston-Salem Police Department; he was charged with Taylor’s murder and held at the Forsyth County Law Enforcement Detention Center without bail.

This was recorded as the fifth homicide in Winston-Salem for 2021, a rise from the same point in 2020. Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the police.