High Point police investigate targeted shooting that killed 22-year-old man

A targeted shooting at a Hidden Creek Terrace home off Brentwood Street killed 22-year-old Jeremiah Dallas and wounded a 35-year-old man late Wednesday night, a case High Point police say was aimed at a specific person or dispute rather than random neighborhood violence.

Officers were called to the home about 10:45 p.m. and found Dallas in the front yard with a gunshot wound. Police said he was pronounced dead at the scene. Inside the home, investigators found a 35-year-old man who had also been shot. He was taken to a local hospital with injuries that were described as non-life-threatening.

The detail that the attack was targeted matters because it narrows the likely risk to a personal conflict, retaliation or another known connection, while also easing the fear that the shooting was a random threat to nearby residents. Police have not said who they believe was the intended target, and no motive has been released.

The High Point Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit is leading the homicide investigation, and detectives had not announced an arrest as of Wednesday night. The case was posted as an active homicide investigation by the city, and police were still collecting evidence and trying to reconstruct what happened before the gunfire.

The killing was High Point’s fourth criminal homicide of 2026, a grim marker for a city already dealing with a rise in violent crime. In its 2025 annual report, the department said overall crime fell 9% last year, but violent crime increased 6%. Property crime dropped 21%. Detectives investigated five criminal homicides in 2025, up from three in 2024.

The same report showed how heavily police are leaning on gun-violence enforcement and forensic tracking. Officers seized more than 440 firearms in 2025 and submitted 660 entries to the National Ballistic Information Network, a database used to connect shell casings and weapons across cases.

High Point police say their Real Time Crime Center helps officers and detectives gather information quickly during critical incidents, and the city’s LINK High Point program lets residents and businesses register security cameras to aid investigations. Crime Stoppers of High Point is also taking anonymous tips by phone at 336-889-4000, through the P3 Tips app, and online, with cash rewards available for information that leads to an arrest or solves an unsolved crime.

The shooting leaves another Guilford County family mourning while investigators work to determine whether the violence grew out of a personal dispute, retaliation or some other connection already known to the people involved.