High Point police investigate officer-involved shooting on May 18

High Point police said officers responded to the 4500 block in an officer-involved shooting, but the city’s public notice did not yet show the exact street address, the number of people injured or whether any officers or civilians were taken to a hospital.

The High Point Police Department posted the incident as an “Officer Involved Shooting” media release on May 18, 2026. At this point, the publicly visible notice gives only the broad location and leaves open the most immediate public-accountability questions: who was shot, whether anyone was wounded, and what happened in the moments before officers opened fire.

Those answers are likely to come later through the city’s incident-report system. High Point says public copies of accident and incident reports are available through its Police to Citizen site, but reports can take 48 to 72 hours to appear online. That means residents looking for the first official account may not see a fuller report until the middle of the week, even as police continue their investigation.

The case adds another officer-involved shooting to a region that has already seen several high-stakes encounters between law enforcement and residents. In December 2024, High Point police said a person involved in a shooting on Mall Loop Road died from injuries after an officer-involved shooting at a McDonald’s near Eastchester Drive. In that case, the department later said the individual had died.

Guilford County also saw an officer-involved shooting in May 2025, when two North Carolina Highway Patrol troopers shot a man on I-85 South near mile marker 118 after, troopers said, he fired at them during a traffic stop. WRAL identified the man as Deshawn Sawyer of High Point and reported that he was in critical condition. The troopers, Logan Self and Charles Chiarello, were placed on administrative leave while the Highway Patrol investigated.

For High Point residents, the unanswered questions now are straightforward: what exactly happened in the 4500 block, when will video or incident records be released, and whether police will place any officers on leave while the case is reviewed. Those details usually determine how quickly the public can assess the use of force and whether the department’s account matches the evidence.