Greensboro man charged with two more murders in 2019 case

Greensboro police have filed two more murder charges against Jimmy Edward Richardson III, a 33-year-old man already serving a life sentence in another homicide case. The new indictment adds two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and one count of first-degree burglary.

The charges stem from the Sept. 2, 2019, shooting at 5528 W. Market St., Apt. C, where officers found Christopher Parson and Kendrick Gilbert, both 24, along with a woman and a one-month-old child. Parson and Gilbert died at the scene. The woman and infant were taken to a hospital and survived. The victims were cousins, and the apartment became one of Greensboro’s longer-running unresolved homicide scenes.

Richardson was indicted in the case on May 4 and served Monday, July 6, bringing the file back into court years after the shooting. He was already incarcerated by then, having been convicted in November 2025 in the killing of Pravinbhai Suthar and sentenced to life in prison. Richardson also previously served a manslaughter sentence from 2011 to 2017.

The new filing suggests investigators and prosecutors had built enough of a case to press additional charges even after the defendant was already locked up. Publicly released charging details do not spell out which witness statements, forensic findings or other developments pushed the case forward now, but the indictment marks a major procedural step in a case that remained open for years after the killings.

For Parson and Gilbert’s families, the new murder counts bring the case closer to a courtroom reckoning that had not existed when the investigation was still being talked about as unsolved nearly four years after the shooting. It also lands in the opening months of Greensboro Police Chief Kamran Afzal’s tenure. City Manager Nathaniel “Trey” Davis selected Afzal after a national search, and Afzal began work May 13 after John Thompson retired in February.

In a city where older homicide files can linger for years, the Richardson indictment shows that a dormant case can still move when detectives and prosecutors keep building the record.