Teen shot and killed on Holly Street
By Steve Herring
Published in News on July 1, 2016 1:46 PM
News-Argus/CASEY MOZINGO
WayneNET personnel move the body of Lamar Wilson as Goldsboro Police Department crime scene investigator Cpl. Trevor Albaugh takes notes this morning.
A 17-year-old Goldsboro man was killed in an early morning shooting on Holly Street today.
The body of Montez Lamar Wilson was found by Goldsboro police around 2:20 a.m. after officers responded to a report of shots being fired.
Wilson, who police said appeared to have been shot, was found lying on the sidewalk about midway of Holly Street between Daisy and Waters streets.
He was pronounced dead at the scene by Wayne County EMS.
Investigators were still on the scene this morning. A black fence-like barrier surrounded the body as neighbors stood on their porches or in yards or on the street corner watching the police activity.
A WayneNET ambulance arrived about 7:30 a.m. to transport the body.
A bicycle lay near the curb some 20 feet or so from the body. Seven yellow crime scene markers were near the bicycle. Another was across the street from the body near a light pole.
The area was cordoned off by yellow crime scene tape as was a second location on Waters Street, where the Woodcrest Community Center building was cordoned off.
Residents were hesitant to talk, but one man, who lives across the street from where the body was found, said he and his wife were awakened by gunfire between 2 and 2:30 a.m.
The neighbor said he is retired from the Army and recognized the sound as gunfire as soon as he awoke. He said he heard at least four shots, but that his wife said she had heard seven.
The neighbor said he told his wife to stay away from the windows.
He said he looked out, but could not see anything.
The neighbor said he walked out on the porch and saw the body as police were arriving and told him to go back inside.
The man said he had lived in the neighborhood for about two years and that it is a fairly quiet one.
However, over those two years there have been at least nine times when he has heard gunshots, he added. It is hard to determine where they came from because of the acoustics, he said.
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to called investigator A. Tilghman at 919-580-4218 or investigator J. Sturgill at 919-580-4211.