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TDoR 2025 / 2024 / November / 10 / Quanesha Shantel ("Cocoa")

Quanesha Shantel ("Cocoa")

Age 25

10 Nov 2024
Greensboro, North Carolina (USA)
Shot

Cocoa was found shot dead in a crashed vehicle on Guilford College Road. Her ex-boyfriend, Jeremy Reynolds, 31, who has been charged with first-degree murder.

According to friends and family, Cocoa had broken up with him four months prior, and he had been “violently upset” ever since.

On Sunday, November 10, 2024, at around 9:15 p.m., officers from the Greensboro Police Department, along with firefighters and EMS, were dispatched to the 400 block of Guilford College Road. They responded to reports of shots fired and found Cocoa inside a 2014 Honda Accord, deceased from multiple gunshot wounds.

According to arrest warrants obtained by The North Carolina Beat, Cocoa was inside the car when she was shot with a semi-automatic weapon. Reynolds has since been charged with first-degree murder and discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling or vehicle.

Reynolds appeared in court for the first time on Wednesday, where he was denied bond. He remains detained at the Greensboro Detention Center.

Police have not yet released the full details surrounding the murder, but it appears that Reynolds was in love with Cocoa and couldn’t bear to see her walk away from him.

Cocoa was part of the ballroom community and well-known from her participation around the Southern states of the US. According to her social media, she was part of the House of Mizrahi.

Her Facebook profile is https://www.facebook.com/qaa.chanel/.

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