Body of gunshot victim found in Greensboro identified

4-20-05

From Staff Reports

Updated 3:45 p.m.

GREENSBORO Police identified the body of a man found on a street early this morning as 19-year-old Greensboro resident Shawn Eric McNeill.

McNeill's body was found in front of a home at 113 Drewsbury Drive, according to Greensboro police.

How many more bodies are going to have to be found before someone say that we have some major concerns here in Greensboro that need to be addressed...This was a kid..a young black males life that was lost today..When is it going to end ??? When it happens in your neighbourhood? When it happens to your son or daughter?...One body is too many, black or white.....

The US Department of Justice, too, is getting involved. Last week, it announced that it's sending 15 federal "impact teams" to help local police departments curb violent crime in cities like Greensboro, N.C. USA Society & Culture
from the July 06, 2004 edition

Greensboro, NC, population 223,891 , is located in North Carolina's Guilford county, about 25.3 miles from Winston-Salem and 50.3 miles from Durham.

Through the 90's Greensboro's population has grown by about 22%. It is estimated that in recent years Greensboro's population has been growing at an annual rate of less than one percent.

The state and national unemployment rates were both 5.4 percent in February.

Here's a county-by-county breakdown of unemployment rates in the 12 Triad counties for February, compared to January:

* Alamance: 6.3 percent, up from 5.7 percent;
* Caswell: 9 percent, up from 7.7 percent;
* Davidson: 6.7 percent, up from 6.3 percent;
* Davie: 5 percent, up from 4.7 percent;
* Forsyth: 5 percent, up from 4.7 percent;
* Guilford: 5.5 percent, up from 5.2 percent;
* Montgomery: 7.4 percent, up from 7.2 percent;
* Randolph: 5.2 percent, up from 4.8 percent;
* Rockingham: 7.6 percent, up from 7 percent;
* Stokes: 5.3 percent, up from 4.9 percent;
* Surry: 7 percent, up from 6.4 percent; and,
* Yadkin: 5.5 percent, up from 5 percent.