DA clears Greensboro officers in fatal Orchard Street shooting
A Greensboro officer-involved shooting on Orchard Street ended with a deadly-force justification finding, months after Raevon Bishaun Milton died at 26.
Guilford County District Attorney Avery Crump cleared Greensboro police officers in the fatal Orchard Street shooting, ruling that their use of deadly force was justified after Raevon Bishaun Milton fired at them first.
The shooting happened in the 1200 block of Orchard Street in Greensboro on Feb. 26, after police responded to a domestic disturbance call at about 12:41 a.m. in a Greensboro apartment parking lot. Police said officers arrived at the scene and Milton fired at them, then officers returned fire.
Milton was taken to the hospital after the shooting and died April 2. He was 26. The case drew unusual attention because the district attorney’s review covered a fatal encounter in which the suspect did not die on scene, but weeks later.
Crump’s determination closed the review of the officer-involved shooting on the criminal side. The ruling leaves the Greensboro Police Department’s account of the encounter, and the district attorney’s finding that deadly force was justified, as the central public record in the case.
The sequence matters for anyone tracking police accountability in Greensboro and Guilford County: a domestic disturbance call, a late-night response in an apartment lot, gunfire from Milton, return fire from officers, hospitalization, and death weeks later. In Crump’s judgment, the officers’ actions met the legal standard for deadly force.
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