Thomas James Brown, 27, was fatally shot while walking home from a family friend’s house on February 4, 2019, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Known as Pork Chop, he had been released from Piedmont Correctional Institution in September 2018 and family members said he was trying to turn his life around.

On the night he died his family heard gunfire and found him lying in the middle of North Jackson Avenue; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Police described him as having a history of habitual misdemeanor assault, but family members said he had changed. Thomas’s death was the first homicide in Winston-Salem in 2019 and, as of the last update, no suspects had been identified.

Anyone who saw activity on North Jackson Avenue that night or who has information about Thomas’s killing is asked to come forward.