Breanna Zhane Hunter, 28, a Black woman from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was found with a gunshot wound on the 1200 block of East Twenty-Fifth Street at about 7:19 a.m. on Saturday, August 16, 2025. First responders pronounced her dead at the scene and her family was notified. Detectives opened a homicide investigation, called it an isolated incident, and turned the case to the Criminal Investigations Division.

Investigators identified a suspect and secured charges. Police charged 31-year-old Troy Latrece Brown with murder in connection with Hunter’s killing; booking records show a first-degree murder booking for a person with that name in Forsyth County on the same date. No additional motive or narrative has been released. An obituary page from a local funeral home confirmed her identity and date of death, and memorials and tributes have appeared online.

Did anyone in Winston-Salem know Breanna or have information about that morning on East Twenty-Fifth Street?