Greensboro police investigate deadly Glendale Drive shooting, 21-year-old killed

A 21-year-old man was killed and another man was wounded in a daytime shooting on Glendale Drive, adding another violent death to Greensboro’s 2026 tally.

Officers, firefighters and Guilford County EMS were sent to 1015 Glendale Drive at about 1 p.m. Thursday, June 4, after a shooting was reported. Crews found Malik Emir Baker, 21, and another man with apparent gunshot wounds. Baker was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS personnel. The second victim was taken by ambulance to a hospital for treatment.

Greensboro police have not released a suspect description or a motive, and the case remains active. Detectives are still trying to determine what led to the gunfire, whether the shooting was targeted or random, and whether witnesses, surveillance video or other leads can help identify who opened fire.

Baker’s death was the city’s 11th homicide of 2026, a steep rise from a Greensboro city release last month that identified another killing as the city’s fifth homicide of the year. The pace of those deaths has kept attention on violent crime patterns in Guilford County, especially when shootings happen in the middle of the day in a busy corridor like Glendale Drive, where residents, businesses and traffic can all be affected in an instant.

The Greensboro Police Department’s homicide squad handles homicides, suicides, non-motor-vehicle accidental deaths, cold cases and other unattended death cases, and works closely with the Medical Examiner and the Guilford County District Attorney’s Office. The city’s crime-mapping system shows up to 180 days of crime data and notes that entries may be preliminary and later changed after investigation.

Police are asking anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at 336-373-1000. Greensboro/Guilford Crime Stoppers says tips are confidential and anonymous, and the program, which has operated since 1981, says calls have helped recover more than $29 million in drugs and property in Guilford County. Gun Stoppers, a partnership between Greensboro police and Crime Stoppers, launched in February 2017.

The city’s crime-victim information page points residents to the Guilford County District Attorney’s Office at 201 S. Eugene St. and the Family Justice Center at 201 S. Greene St. in Greensboro as part of the support network tied to violent crime cases.