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GREENSBORO – The concrete was stained with blood in the corridor of the Campus Courtyard apartments, where police found 22-year-old Dennis Hayle shot to death Sunday morning.

Police found Hayle after responding to a call of a shooting at 3:35 a.m. Sunday morning, according to police reports.

Hayle was pronounced dead at the scene at 805 Homestead Ave. Police ask anyone with information to call Crime Stoppers at 373-1000 or the criminal investigation division at 373-2255.

Hayle was a student at N.C. A&T and was a native of Hempstead, N.Y., according to his profile on HBCUConnect.com and Facebook. 

Uche Byrd, a graduate of A&T and Hayle’s Omega Psi Phi fraternity brother, said Hayle was due to graduate this semester.

“I saw him growing into a young man,” Byrd said

Byrd said Hayle had a natural talent for drawing and re-created the fraternity’s shield. Hayle volunteered as a mentor and served breakfast at the Greensboro Urban Ministry soup kitchen.

“He didn’t get into it with nobody. I’m so shocked. I don’t know what happened,” Byrd said. “He had such a bright future…The statistics for minority men aren’t good, but he was beating them.”

Neighbors said Hayle was living at the Campus Courtyard apartment building, where he was found Sunday morning.

Apartment residents said they did not hear any disturbance before the shooting.

“We heard the gunshots,” said neighbor and A&T junior Kendra Webb. “We didn’t think nothing about it because it happens all the time.”

Last weekend, a man was shot in the leg in the street outside the three-story student apartments, Webb said.

“It’s ridiculous. I want to leave,” she said.

Police have not provided additional information about the homicide investigation as of Sunday afternoon.