Greensboro Triple Shooting Survivor Speaks Out Two Years After Deadly Attack

Tara Moreland-Wright has waited two years for an arrest that has never come. On the anniversary of the night gunfire tore through a parked car on Vance Street in southern Greensboro, killing her husband and wounding her toddler grandchild, she went public with a detailed account of the attack's physical and emotional toll, keeping pressure on an investigation that remains open.

Robert Franklin Wright, his wife and their grandchild were in a parked car around 10 p.m. on March 26, 2024, when all three were shot. Wright, 71, died at the scene. Neighbors later learned that 12 shots had been fired, with a toddler caught in the crossfire. The grandchild was listed in critical but stable condition, and Wright's wife was hospitalized.

Officers responded to the 1100 block of Vance Street and found the victims. Police did not believe the attack was random, confirming the family was in a car outside a home when the shots were fired. Robert Wright's death became the city's 11th homicide of that year.

In the chaotic minutes after the shooting, a neighbor recalled seeing the grandmother come down the street screaming for help with the infant in her arms. A neighbor took the child while another rushed out and asked for blankets for the baby.

Days later, the Gate City Coalition gathered on Vance Street calling for a stop to the gun violence, mobilizing three days after the elderly man was killed and his wife and grandchild were injured. Community leaders, Greensboro's Office of Community Safety violence prevention coordinator, and other groups stood on the block with a speaker and microphone to deliver their message, demanding a 30-day ceasefire across the city.

The case remains on the Greensboro/Guilford Crime Stoppers list of unsolved homicides, catalogued as a March 26, 2024 shooting in the 1100 block of Vance Street in which a baby less than 2 years old and his grandmother were also struck. No arrest has been made in the two years since the attack.

Moreland-Wright's decision to speak publicly on the second anniversary keeps one of Greensboro's most disturbing unsolved cases in front of the community. Anyone with information about the Vance Street shooting can contact Greensboro/Guilford Crime Stoppers at 336-373-1000.