On May 18, 2024, at about 5:45 a.m. High Point police found 27-year-old Lakeshia M. Foster with a gunshot wound to the head in the 600 block of Everette Lane. She was taken to Baptist Hospital and died later that day. What was initially reported as a suicide prompted a deeper probe when detectives found evidence at the scene, and the incident is now being investigated as a homicide.

A 44-year-old High Point resident known to Foster, Trynarda N. Burns, was arrested and first charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and inflicting serious injury; after Foster’s death those charges were upgraded to first-degree murder. Burns, who has prior and pending charges including communicating threats, injury to personal property, and second-degree trespassing, posted a $250,000 secured bond and was released. Neighbors said the shooting shocked their usually quiet neighborhood; Foster was remembered as an avid reader who loved animals and cared deeply about family and faith.

If anyone knew Lakeshia Foster or has information about what led to this shooting, please share what you know with investigators.