Greensboro police investigate fatal shooting on Willard Street, victim identified as man

Greensboro police were called at 4:28 a.m. Tuesday to the 1200 block of Willard Street after an aggravated assault report and found one victim with life-threatening injuries. The man was taken to a local hospital, and later reports described the case as a fatal shooting of a 42-year-old man. No arrest had been made, and investigators had not released suspect information.

The victim’s name has not been released, leaving the block with an early-morning police scene and little public explanation of what happened before dawn. Greensboro/Guilford Crime Stoppers is asking anyone with information to call 336-373-1000.

The Willard Street case landed during a run of violent-crime calls Greensboro police have posted publicly this spring, including homicide investigations tied to Hewitt Street and East Carteret Street and aggravated-assault cases on Joseph McNeil Avenue and West Wendover Avenue. The department’s weekly crime reports count victims for homicide and aggravated assault citywide, a format that helps readers compare a single block’s violence with the broader pattern across Greensboro.

Residents can also review recent incidents through the city’s crime map, which covers up to 180 days and can be searched by date range, crime type or distance from an address. For Willard Street, that record will matter most as detectives work to identify a suspect, a motive or any link to the other violent cases officers have been tracking across Greensboro.