On February 27, 2023, at about 2:00 a.m., a large group gathered outside Gatsby’s Pub at 1157 Burke Street in Winston-Salem when a violent altercation erupted and multiple gunshots were fired. Thirty-five-year-old Quante Donnell Wilder was struck multiple times and died at the scene despite life-saving efforts by first responders.

Within hours police identified 19-year-old Winston-Salem resident Nehemiah Chandler as a suspect; Chandler was arrested and charged with murder and held without bond, with an initial court appearance scheduled for February 28, 2023. Investigators later named a second suspect, 19-year-old Jason Efren Cisneros Olmedo, who was arrested on March 21, 2023, and also charged in Wilder’s death.

Wilder’s shooting was recorded as the 13th homicide in Winston-Salem for 2023, prompting family members and community leaders to call for an end to gun violence. If anyone has information about the events outside Gatsby’s Pub that night, please come forward.