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Sheriff releases sketch in killing of store owner

Thursday, December 18, 2008
(Updated Friday, December 19 - 5:15 am)

GREENSBORO — The Guilford County Sheriff's Office released a composite sketch today of a man described as a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a Whitsett store clerk early this month.

Deputies have made no arrests in the slaying of 69-year-old Bobby Lee Taylor. He was fatally shot either late on Dec. 6 or early on Dec. 7 at Taylor's Service and Grocery, the store he owned on N.C. 61 in eastern Guilford County.

The sheriff's office described him as white, in his late 20s to early 30s, 5 feet 10 to 5 feet 11 inches tall with a short, black goatee and a beard with one to two days of growth and long, black sideburns.

He also had dark eyebrows and a thin nose and weighed about 175 pounds.

He was wearing a grey sweatshirt with a hood and a grey toboggan.

The sheriff's office said they are looking for a green vehicle seen in the area around the time of the shooting.

Anyone with information about this incident can call the sheriff's office at 641-3355 or Crime Stoppers at 373-3000.

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Photo Caption: Investigators released a composite image of a person of interest in the Dec. 7 slaying of a Whitsett store owner.

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