Velma Terry knew the day would come when she could lay eyes on the man charged with killing her son. She just didn’t know how long she would have to wait. More than three years ago — Feb.
14, 2021 — police found Te’Ore Terry lying face down in a parking lot on Coliseum Drive. He’d been shot and died at the scene. He was 35 years old.
Days, then weeks, then years passed with no word about who had killed him. Agonizing doesn’t begin to describe the wait. “We’re feeling everything,” she said on the first anniversary of her son’s death.
“We’re trying to keep our sanity as we suffer from grief and trauma at the same time. ..
. But it’s like we’re moving in slow motion.” The long wait ended Friday when a detective with the Winston-Salem Police Department called to say that investigators were charging 28-year-old Jaquane Jurarre Fair with felony murder in connection with Te’Ore Terry’s death.
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Velma Terry came to court Monday to see Fair stand before a judge for a first appearance — a formal reading of the charge — and the next step in the long, slow walk toward some semblance of justice and, perhaps, some peace. “It’s a lot. It really is,” she said Monday afternoon.
“It did give the family some closure. It definitely did. But there’s a long way to go.
” Te’Ore Terry’s killing, senseless as it was, shocked many in the downtown community. For 10 years, he’d worked as a shift manager at the CVS at the corn.