Kendrick Maurice Smith, a 22-year-old Black man from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was killed on August 9, 2015. Officers responding to a noise complaint at a crowded house at 1017 E. Devonshire St. encountered gunfire as they approached; Smith was found fatally shot and another man, 30-year-old Wayne Ivan Warren III, was wounded but survived.

Smith, known as Rocko to friends and family, was the city’s ninth homicide of 2015 amid a series of shootings that year. Detectives opened an investigation into the incident, but no arrests were announced immediately and no suspects have been publicly identified or charged. The community held a candlelight vigil in his memory.

Anyone with information about what happened at 1017 E. Devonshire St. on August 9, 2015 is asked to come forward.