Joshua Smith-Cordoba, age 19, male, Hispanic/Latino, was shot on the night of August 5, 2025, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Police found Joshua Smith-Cordoba with a gunshot wound in the parking lot of a Citgo on West Friendly Avenue shortly after 9 p.m.; he was taken to a hospital where he died. The case was recorded as a fatal shooting that day, with memorial listings later confirming his identity and the date of his death.
By the following afternoon, investigators announced two arrests connected to the killing of Joshua Smith-Cordoba, age 19, male. According to police, Phillip Lee Perryman, 23, was charged with first-degree murder, and Jiavair Howard, 19, was charged with robbery with a dangerous weapon. Both men were booked into the Guilford County Jail, as authorities continued their inquiry into how the confrontation unfolded.
Public incident records describe the setting as a gas-station parking lot and note elements consistent with an armed robbery resulting in death. Those entries, alongside local coverage and memorial documentation, trace a brief, violent encounter that ended Joshua Smith-Cordoba’s, age 19, male, life even before investigators could piece together a fuller account of motive and roles, beyond the initial charges announced.
