On September 16th, 2000, another man was killed in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was almost exactly an hour later and less than nine miles away from where previously discussed Eddie Cruz met his end, This time the victim was twenty-nine-year-old Robert Payne Williams, the owner of a landscaping business called Home Sweet Home Improvements. He was shot with a .40-caliber handgun at Club Sensations on East Bessemer Avenue at approximately two-twenty a.m. Witnesses stated that he looked as though he’d been trying to break up a fight, though no one could identify the shooter because it was too dark inside the establishment.
Robert was transported to Moses Cone Hospital, suffering from a single gunshot wound to his abdomen, but he died of his injuries shortly afterward.
Club Sensations was closed down by the city a few days after the killing as the place was considered a public nuisance. It had been the site of three murders, several shootings, and one assault since 1999.
In November 2002, police arrested thirty-three-year-old Ernest Leland Kegler in Charleston, West Virginia, transporting him back to North Carolina and charging him with first-degree murder in connection with the shooting of Robert Payne Williams. However, in February 2003, the charges were dismissed due to lack of evidence, and as of this writing in March 2025, the crime remains unsolved.
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