Overview
- Two separate shootings on Winston‑Salem State University’s campus on Saturday night left one person dead and three others injured, according to Winston‑Salem police.
- Officers found 19‑year‑old Peyton Izaia Patterson with a gunshot wound at about 9:46 p.m. and he later died, police said.
- Police arrested 20‑year‑old Ziyaire Antonyo Spinks in connection with the fatal shooting and charged him with murder, assault with a deadly weapon and felony possession of a firearm on an educational campus; he is being held without bond and is not a WSSU student.
- The second shooting, reported around 10:22 p.m., remains under active investigation after officers treated two gunshot victims and identified a vehicle of interest but had made no arrests as of the latest reports.
- WSSU lifted an initial lockdown, canceled remaining homecoming activities, kept extra law enforcement on campus and offered counseling to students and families as the community copes with confusion from early social media reports and growing safety concerns.