Henry Lee Wilder Jr., 33, of Salisbury, North Carolina, was critically injured in a late-night shooting on June 7, 2020, in the 800 block of Green Street off Bringle Ferry Road. The shooting happened around 10 p.m.; Wilder was taken to Wake Forest Medical Center in Winston-Salem and died of his injuries early the next morning, June 8, 2020.

Salisbury Police investigated the incident and say two other men were wounded in the same shooting but survived. On June 25, 2020, officers arrested 25-year-old Dequan Torrez Chawlk of Salisbury during a traffic stop and charged him with first-degree murder in connection with Wilder’s death. Police reported finding drugs and weapons in Chawlk’s vehicle at the time of the arrest.

Wilder was remembered by family and friends as a son, father, and brother. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Salisbury Police.