WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Nearly seven months after a deadly New Year’s Day shooting on Peachtree Street, a third suspect was finally extradited back to North Carolina, according to the Winston-Salem Police Department.

According to the Winston-Salem Police Department, officers were dispatched to Peachtree Street around 11:20 p.m. on January 1. After arriving on scene, officers located 54-year-old John Derriman Richards dead from apparent gunshot wounds. Two other adults and three children who were in the home at the time of the incident were not harmed.

Henry Montarious Smith, 38, was arrested in Florida back in July in connection with the shooting.

Smith was charged with felony Murder, Discharging a Weapon into an Occupied Property, Assault with the Intent to Kill or Inflict Serious Injury

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