HIGH POINT, N.C. — Police are searching for the person who shot and killed a 78-year-old man in his home in High Point on Thursday.
Investigators say officers responded to 801 Meredith Street around 8:14 p.m. for an unknown trouble call. When they arrived, they found William Franklin Morrison lying inside the doorway of his home with a gunshot wound.
“He was a harmless old man minding his business," the victims son of the same name, William Morrison Jr. said. "He got in a bad situation with somebody that it appears he knew, and they shot him.”