A Winston-Salem man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole this week for gunning down a partygoer and wounding three others during a Halloween gathering in 2020 — a case that took six years to reach a jury. Bryan Eugene Quick, now 60, was found guilty of first-degree murder, three counts of attempted first-degree murder and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon on Nov. 4, 2026, according to court documents.
A Six-Year Wait for Trial
Quick’s sentences on the attempted-murder and assault counts will run concurrently with his life sentence, with each assault count carrying a term of six years, one month to eight years, four months, and each attempted-murder count carrying a term of 13 years, one month to 16 years, nine months, according to FOX8 WGHP. His jury trial began Oct. 26, 2026, and concluded just over a week later on Nov. 4. The case had dragged on for years before that: an earlier FOX8 report found that Quick’s hearings had been continued more than a dozen times over the five years since the shooting, with the station noting at the time that he had yet to stand trial.
The shooting that set the case in motion happened in the early hours of Nov. 1, 2020, at a Halloween gathering on Glenn-Hi Road in Winston-Salem. Officers were called to the 3900 block of Glen Hi Road at 12:42 a.m. on a report of a shooting with multiple victims, according to WBTW. Officers found Keith Charles Myers, 40, of Winston-Salem, dead at the scene.
Three Others Wounded, Suspect Caught Quickly
Three additional victims — a 19-year-old man, a 46-year-old man and a 59-year-old man — were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, per the same outlet’s report. Quick was identified as a suspect shortly after the shooting and was taken into custody, the station noted.
One of the injured victims, Kevin McGee, was shot three times that night, according to an account his wife, Sharon McGee, gave to FOX8 in a report published five years after the attack. Sharon McGee said Quick showed up uninvited to the party and got into a fight with another guest. “This guy showed up unannounced, and he wasn’t even invited to the party,” she said. Partygoers stepped in and broke up the fight, but Quick then retrieved a gun from his car and opened fire on the four victims, according to the seed facts in the case.
What North Carolina Law Says
Under North Carolina law, first-degree murder is classified as a Class A felony punishable by death or imprisonment for life without parole, as determined by the court, according to statutory text published by the North Carolina General Assembly. Quick’s case ended with the life-without-parole outcome for Myers’s killing, closing out a prosecution that spanned six years from the night of the shooting to the jury’s verdict.
