Police investigate multiple Durham shootings; 1 leaves 16-year-old dead
DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Durham police are investigating after five people were shot, including a teenager who was killed, across the city on Thursday
Officers investigated at three different locations involving four victims. A fifth gunshot victim showed up at a hospital, but police haven't yet determined where that shooting happened.
The deadly shooting took place in the 1200 block of Truman Street just after 4 p.m. The Durham Police Department said officers found a 16-year-old boy who had been shot.
The teen was taken to a hospital where he later died.
Police have not released the teen's identity.
An active investigation is underway at the scene.
Anyone with information on this shooting is asked to call Investigator J. Berkstresser at (919) 560-4440 ext. 29538 or contact CrimeStoppers at (919) 683-1200 or online at www.durhamcrimestoppers.org.
Two more shootings reported
Durham Police confirmed that another shooting happened just after 6:15 p.m. in the 300 block of Pettigrew Street.
Officers responded to the scene after a report of shots fired. A short time later, a man with a gunshot arrived at the nearby bus terminal on foot.
He was taken to a hospital with what were believed to be serious but not life-threatening injuries.
A third shooting took place just before 5 p.m. in the 1300 block of Fayetteville Street at Linwood Avenue.
Officers didn't find anyone shot there, but a short time later, a man and a male juvenile who had both been shot arrived at a hospital in a private vehicle. Both victims sustained what were described as non-life-threatening injuries.
Fifth gunshot victim arrives at hospital
Yet another man with a gunshot wound also arrived at a hospital around the same time with what were believed to be non-life-threatening injuries.
Police do not yet know where this shooting took place.
DPD said it has not yet determined whether any of these shootings were related.
ABC11 spoke with Durham Mayor Leonardo Williams about the violence across the city.
"I just spoke about this in my state of the city. We have to take a holistic approach to, you know, just crime involving the youth," he said. "And the fact of the matter is, the people who are living in the zone where shots fired was, are the ones that are asking what is wrong with us as a council and where is ShotSpotter?"
Anyone with information about any of these shootings is asked to contact CrimeStoppers at (919) 683-1200 or online at www.durhamcrimestoppers.org. CrimeStoppers pays cash rewards of up to $2,000 for information leading to arrests in felony cases and callers never have to identify themselves.
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