On May 16, 2018, 50-year-old Gene Aikens Jr. was found dead from gunshot wounds inside his home on the 200 block of Dorothy Street in High Point, North Carolina. Police were alerted after the victim’s daughter reported that her brother, 21-year-old Zachary C. Aikens, had arrived at her home covered in blood and confessed to killing their father, and that he might go to their grandparents’ house.

Officers went to the grandparents’ residence on Overbrook Court, where they saw Zachary on the roof. He allegedly fired a shotgun at officers; they returned fire, wounding him, and he was taken to a hospital. Upon release he was jailed without bond on a first-degree murder charge and held on a $5 million bond for four counts of attempted murder of law enforcement officers. A 15-year-old male friend of Zachary’s was also detained and charged with first-degree murder; authorities described the juvenile as an active, willing participant. No motive has been publicly disclosed.

Did anyone in High Point know the victim or the two suspects and have information about what led up to that day?