Jesús Adrián Terrazas, a 25-year-old Hispanic/Latino man, was fatally shot in Greensboro, North Carolina, during the early morning hours of October 8, 2023. At approximately 2 a.m., Greensboro police officers were dispatched to the Price Shopping Center on West Market Street after receiving a report of a shooting. When officers arrived, they found Terrazas suffering from gunshot wounds in the shopping center parking lot.
He was transported to a nearby hospital in critical condition, but his injuries proved fatal. Police subsequently classified his death as a homicide and began investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting.
In the days after the killing, Terrazas’ relatives and friends gathered at the same shopping center where he had been shot to hold a candlelight vigil in his memory. Candles, photographs and teddy bears were placed outside Peper’s Mart as mourners remembered him. His family said he was affectionately known by the nickname “Fat Boy” and described him as an important presence who helped hold the family together. One of his sisters said the family understood that he had been shot three times and that a gunshot wound to the head was fatal. His sisters spoke publicly about the devastation caused by his death and their desire for justice while police continued trying to determine who was responsible.
For more than a month after the shooting, the case remained publicly unresolved. That changed on November 13, 2023, when Greensboro police announced the arrest of Quinsa Julius King, who was 21 at the time. Investigators accused King of shooting and killing Terrazas in the Price Shopping Center parking lot. King was charged with first-degree murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon. Following his arrest, police said he was being held in the Guilford County Jail without bond.
The robbery charge indicates that investigators believed the fatal shooting was connected to an alleged armed robbery rather than being treated solely as an unexplained act of gun violence. Public reporting located on the case identifies King as the person charged in connection with Terrazas’ death and does not identify additional suspects charged alongside him in the homicide. Earlier reports published before King’s arrest had stated that no suspect had yet been taken into custody, but those accounts were superseded by the November 2023 announcement of his arrest and murder charge.
Available online reporting reviewed for this synopsis does not establish a later trial verdict, guilty plea, acquittal, dismissal, or sentence for King in connection with Terrazas’ killing. The most clearly documented legal development remains his arrest and the filing of first-degree murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon charges. Accordingly, those accusations should be understood as criminal charges rather than proof of guilt unless and until resolved through the court system.
