On the afternoon of February 10, 2024, 53-year-old Gregory Wayne Headen was shot and found in the parking lot of a busy shopping center in the 3800 block of Guess Road near Horton Road in Durham, North Carolina. Headen was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead. The scene sits amid retail businesses including Ollie’s Bargain Outlet and an H&R Block office, a location that suggests there may have been potential witnesses present.

Durham Police have classified the death as a homicide and say no suspects have been identified and no arrests have been made. Family and friends have described Headen as warm and community-minded; funeral services were held on February 26, 2024, at Cox Memorial Freewill Baptist Church with interment at Gees Grove AME Zion Church in Siler City. Anyone with information is asked to contact Investigator J. Smith at (919) 560-4440 ext. 29365 or CrimeStoppers at (919) 683-1200.

Did anyone see or hear anything unusual in the shopping center parking lot that afternoon?