On June 10, 2024, at about 11:45 p.m., Winston-Salem police responded to a reported shooting on the 5000 block of Eltha Drive and found 37-year-old Rashad Akeem Sims with gunshot wounds. EMS transported Sims to a local hospital, where he later died of his injuries. Investigators say Sims and the suspect were acquainted, and they indicated the shooting appeared targeted rather than random. Authorities also told the public there was no ongoing threat from this incident.

On June 21, 2024, law enforcement arrested 31-year-old Jake Tywone Gainey IV. A joint task force of U.S. Marshals and the Winston-Salem Police Department SWAT team took Gainey into custody; he was charged with general murder and booked into the Forsyth County Detention Center without bond. The relationship between Sims and Gainey and the events leading up to the shooting remain under investigation.

Did anyone in the area know Sims or have information about his relationship with Gainey or what happened on Eltha Drive that night?