Two Killed, Three Injured after Shooting in Salisbury

SALISBURY, NC – No arrests after police say multiple people were shot in downtown Salisbury.

Two died and two others were injured. Investigators suspect a fifth victim may have been shot at the same location.

Latasha Wilks says she knew both homicide victims. She was close with 22-year-old Anthony Gill.

“He was very respectful to me. He actually, he called me ‘Ma,'” she says, “I have a program where I feed kids in the community and he was one of the children that I fed from time to time.”

She also knew 23-year-old Daquan Robertson.

“He was the same way. Yes, ma’am, no ma’am,” she says.

Police found Robertson dead just after 2:00 Saturday morning.

They responded to a parking lot at Main Street and West Fisher Street after reports of multiple shots fired.

The other victim, Gill, died after arriving at the hospital with two other people who were shot.

A fifth possible fifth victim showed up at a hospital in Lexington.

At the scene, evidence markers surrounded several bullets on the ground and several cars had broken windows.

Investigators remained at the scene throughout the day. A concert, which was scheduled at the scene, called ‘Music at the Mural,’ was cancelled Saturday night.

“I was kind of hurt first of all because we have been down this road so many times in this city,” says community organizer Chariel Dye.

Dye says she sends her condolences to the victims’ families.

She says the location is especially troubling.

“You have a lot of people coming in and out of that community and even though it was late at night, it does make a difference in where all this stuff is starting to take place because now it’s pouring out of the communities and pouring deadly into the streets,” she says.