Pariss Tucker Baines, 50, a Black/African American female, died on June 13, 2025, after gunfire erupted outside the Creekwood Apartments on Old Greensboro Road in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Police and emergency crews were called just after 9 p.m. to the complex at 2425 Old Greensboro Road, where investigators would later determine that the shooting began in the parking lot.
Struck outside, Pariss Tucker Baines, 50, was carried by bystanders into her apartment, where officers found her; she was pronounced dead at the scene. Another woman was also hit and taken to a hospital in serious but stable condition.
Detectives said the exchange of gunfire involved two groups shooting at each other, and that Pariss Tucker Baines, 50, was not the intended target. The early portrait of the encounter was one of chaos—a crossfire cutting across a residential courtyard on a summer night—and of neighbors moving instinctively to help as officers converged. By the following day, the circumstances had been narrowed to a gun battle between unidentified parties, but not to any single suspect.
As the investigation unfolded, Winston-Salem police reported no arrests. They reiterated that the case remained open while evidence was gathered and witnesses were interviewed, a process complicated by the number of people involved and the suddenness of the barrage. The absence of named suspects deepened the family’s plea for answers, as relatives mourned publicly and urged anyone with knowledge to come forward.
The confirmation of her death on that date—June 13, 2025—anchored the official accounts and remembrances that followed, from police updates to memorial listings. In those notices, the name Pariss Cornelia Tucker Baines, 50, was fixed to a night when everyday routines gave way to gunfire, leaving a family without its center and a community looking for accountability.
