On the night of June 22, 2023, at about 11:20 p.m., Reidsville police responded to a reported shooting in the 200 block of Pennsylvania Avenue and found 38-year-old Henry Mc Thaddon HenRock Hayes II dead of gunshot wounds. Hayes was a lifelong area resident, a Reidsville High School graduate and standout football player, who ran Backstreet Seafood & More and Still Rolling and attended Bass Chapel United Methodist Church. He was remembered by the community as kind-hearted and willing to help others.

The Reidsville Police Department opened a homicide investigation. A reward program to encourage tips began at $2,000 and was later boosted by Hayes’s family to a total of $10,000.

If anyone knew Henry or has information about that night, please come forward.