It happened just after 11:15 p.m. on Saturday near the intersection of Ajax Drive and Tower Drive in Hope Mills.
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The victims left the scene and stopped at the Short Stop gas station on NC Highway 87 South after seeing a marked patrol car parked there.
Deputies at the gas station found 21-year-old Franklin Monroe of Hope Mills and 16-year-old Cameron Emery of Fayetteville with fatal gunshot wounds.
A third victim, a girl whose age was not released by the sheriff's office, was transported to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center.
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Anyone with information is asked to contact the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office Homicide Unit at (910) 321-6592.
If you prefer to provide information anonymously, you may submit tips to the Fayetteville/Cumberland County CrimeStoppers at www.p3tips.com or by calling (910) 483- TIPS (8477).
These two deaths marked the first homicide investigation of 2020 for the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office.
The video in the media player above is from a previous update.