GREENSBORO, N.C. — Guilford County Sheriff's Deputies are investigating a deadly attack in the Adams Farm community on Thursday.
Investigators said a woman died and her niece was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery. The call came in just after 10 a.m. Thursday near Wellsley Drive West and Adams Farm Parkway. A suspect is not in custody.
The sheriff's office said the attacker was not related to the family in any way and this was a random attack. We don't know how the victims were attacked, but the sheriff's office said it was NOT a shooting.
"It’s a random person. Right now, it is still under investigation, so we don’t really have all the answers right now, so we’re treating it like an isolated incident. But I can tell you this and I feel comfortable about saying it, he’s not in this community; he’s not in this area, so I can’t go any further than that right now," Sheriff Danny Rogers said.
One Greensboro resident, Greg Rhodes, stumbled across the scene while visiting his friend in Adams Farm, he describes what he saw during the early stages of the active scene, "I couldn’t get through because everything was blocked off. Crime scene tape and everything blocked the streets and that was basically all I saw. I hung around for a few minutes cause I couldn’t get through and the fire engines came and they appeared to be washing the streets down and then the crime scene experts seemed like they were fingerprinting a vehicle that was up there," said Rhodes.
During the Sheriff's press conference about this situation, he continued to say that if people feel something suspicious in their community is going on, they should report it.
“To all communities around or in Guilford County - when you see something out of place, you see a person in a community, in a place where they do not belong and they seem like a suspicious person — call 911," Sheriff Danny Rogers said.
One Adams Farm resident, Christina Sumner, said she does call in suspicious activity. She says she has seen more of it in recent years, "It’s changed. We’ve been here for 20 years and we have noticed a little influx of things happening. Everybody’s got a Ring camera now, so if I do see something on a Ring camera on this point, I will call," Sumner said.
Our crews at the scene reported seeing blood in the street. Some neighbors reported seeing investigators get fingerprints off of a vehicle.
The names of the victims have not been released, as well as how the assaults took place. Check back for updates as we continue gathering information.
Photos: Adams Farm homicide
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