On April 1, 2023, shortly before 7:00 a.m., Joy Tucker called 911 saying an unknown person fired multiple rounds at her and her husband, Prosper Nyatorwonu, as they arrived at their home at 240 14th Avenue Drive SW in Hickory, North Carolina. Tucker, 45, was found on the front steps with a minor knee injury; Nyatorwonu, 46, was found near the rear of the house with gunshot wounds and was taken to Frye Regional Medical Center, then to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, where he died on April 4, 2023. The couple was unable to identify the shooter and the Hickory Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

Investigators noted that Tucker’s son, 18-year-old Toland Huff Jr., had been charged on March 14, 2023, with attempted murder for allegedly firing into two apartments and was later identified as a suspect in a separate April 3, 2023, convenience-store shooting; authorities considered whether those incidents might be connected to Nyatorwonu’s homicide. As of April 10, 2023, no arrests had been announced and the department asked anyone with information to contact them.

Did anyone in Hickory see or hear anything around 6:50–7:10 a.m. on April 1 that could help the investigation?