A Winston-Salem man, who was a club promoter and helped the city’s poor people, died Wednesday morning after a shooting at the Paper Moon Gentlemen’s Club.

Eric Jermane Pegues, 41, of Aureole Street died at Forsyth Medical Center, Winston-Salem police said.

Officers went to the club at 2:47 a.m. after they received a report of a shooting in the club’s parking lot at 1007 Salisbury Ridge Road. Police learned the victim had been taken to Forsyth Medical Center.

Officers went to the hospital and were told Pegues died shortly after he arrived, police said.

There was no police crime tape in the club’s parking lot Wednesday afternoon, and no one answered the door at the club.

Nakita McDaniel, a community organizer with Neighbors for Better Neighborhoods, said that Pegues was a community leader even though he wasn’t associated with any local organization.

Pegues helped feed people in poor and black neighborhoods throughout the city, McDaniel said.

“He was respected and well-loved across this city,” she said.

Pegues said in a video posted on his Facebook page that he was a club promoter and entertainment organizer.