Wire reporting: (AP, via WPRI 12)

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Prosecutors told a Forsyth County judge Monday that a declined request for Instagram handles preceded a fight on Winston-Salem State University’s campus in which Ziyaire Spinks, 20, is accused of firing the shots that killed Peyton Patterson, 19, during homecoming on Saturday night¹.

The shooting was reported just after 9:45 p.m. in the 600 block of South Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, WYFF reported from Monday’s court account¹. Winston-Salem police said Sunday they received a call around 9:45 p.m. about a shooting and, at a 1:45 a.m. briefing, that two separate campus incidents left one person dead and three others shot⁷. An early WSVN brief said both incidents were Saturday during homecoming and that it was unclear if they were connected or if anyone had been arrested⁹.

Winston-Salem police arrested Spinks, who is not a university student, and charged him with murder, assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm on educational property; he is being held without bond, according to the Monday court report¹. Cequan Brower, 19, also not a student, was charged with misdemeanor affray¹.

In court, the district attorney’s office said Spinks, Brower and Patterson approached women behind Gleason Hall and asked for Instagram handles¹. When the women declined, prosecutors said, Brower used an expletive and pushed one of them, after which a brother of one of the women stepped in and a fight broke out¹. Prosecutors said the fight ended with Spinks firing, killing Patterson — who had been with the two charged men — and injuring Alyssa Ellerbee, 22, then fleeing and changing clothes¹. Ellerbee was treated at a hospital and released; police have not said whether she is enrolled at the university¹.

Patterson was not a Winston-Salem State student¹. The district attorney’s office said Spinks is on probation in Randolph County for reckless driving and carrying a concealed gun and has pending Guilford County cases that include robbery with a dangerous weapon and other firearm charges¹. A judge reduced Brower’s bond to $5,000 secured, ordered him to stay away from the campus and Ellerbee, and set his next appearance for Dec. 15; Spinks is due back Nov. 19¹.

AP reported Sunday that two separate homecoming shootings at the historically Black university left one person dead and three injured². Chancellor Bonita J. Brown said remaining homecoming activities were canceled⁷.