Family renews plea for tips in eight-year Greensboro double homicide

Shaquanna Hudson’s mother is still waiting for the call that could end eight years of grief. On May 2, 2018, Greensboro police found Hudson, 34, and her boyfriend, Jermaine Wilson, 36, dead inside their home at 2101 Finley St., and no suspect had been charged as of this week.

The case has become a yearly marker of loss for Lelia Hudson, who said she still visits her daughter’s gravesite several times a month because the pain has not faded. The family’s request is simple: if someone knows something about the killings, speak up so the family can finally have answers and justice.

Police have said the deaths were being investigated as a homicide, and earlier reporting said the injuries were consistent with gunshot wounds. Greensboro/Guilford Crime Stoppers was already offering a $2,000 reward in 2018 for information leading to an arrest, and that reward remains a central part of the push for new tips. The Greensboro Police Department says it never closes an unsolved homicide case.

For investigators, the missing piece may still be the one person willing to come forward with something new. Greensboro police say cold cases can break open when someone provides a single previously unknown detail, and Crime Stoppers says tips can be anonymous. Call 336-373-1000 or use the city’s online tip line, and the reward can reach up to $2,000 for information leading to an arrest or indictment.

The timing is especially painful for the Hudson family because May 2 pulls them back to the day everything changed, and Mother’s Day only intensifies that loss. Lelia Hudson has said the family feels the absence in birthdays, holidays and ordinary milestones Shaquanna never got to see. She had recently married, left behind two children and had another grandchild on the way, making the case feel less like a statistic and more like a permanent hole in the family.

Jermaine Wilson’s obituary said he died Wednesday, May 2, 2018, and memorial services were held May 8 at Perry-Spencer Memorial Chapel in Eden. A memorial for Shaquanna Shana Hudson lists her birth date as July 13, 1983, and her death date as May 2, 2018. For Greensboro, the case remains a reminder that an unsolved homicide does not end when the headlines fade; it waits for one witness, one memory or one tip to bring the truth into focus.