High Point man charged in deadly April shooting, police say
A High Point man jailed on unrelated gun charges now faces murder charges in a April 29 shooting that left Jeremiah Dallas dead and another man wounded.
High Point detectives charged Cory Smarr-Hunter on July 6 in connection with the April 29 shooting that killed 22-year-old Jeremiah Dallas and injured a 35-year-old man at a home on Hidden Creek Terrace off Brentwood Street. Police said Smarr-Hunter, 21, was already in the Guilford County Jail in High Point on unrelated firearm charges when the new case was filed.
The charge list is broad and serious: first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury with intent to kill, felony conspiracy, first-degree burglary, discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling, possession of a stolen firearm and possession of a firearm by a felon. Police said he received no bond on the new charges.
Investigators said the shooting happened around 10:45 p.m. on April 29 and appeared to be targeted and tied to drug activity. Dallas was found in the front yard of the Hidden Creek Terrace home with a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene. The second victim, a 35-year-old man inside the house, was taken to an area hospital with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening and was not thought to have been the intended target.
The arrest pushes the case from an active homicide investigation into a formal prosecution, but police said the work is not finished. Detectives are still gathering evidence and information, and they have not ruled out that additional people were involved. Anyone with information can contact Crime Stoppers of High Point or use the P3Tips app.
The case lands in a city where police have been balancing a drop in overall crime with continued violent offenses. In High Point Police Department’s Feb. 16 annual report, overall crime in the city fell 9% in 2025, while violent crime rose 6%. That broader backdrop makes the July 6 arrest part of a longer public-safety picture for High Point neighborhoods, where targeted shootings and gun cases can overlap with burglary and drug activity and keep an investigation open long after the emergency response ends.
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