Durham deputies name suspect in shooting of two women

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Wednesday, August 26, 2015
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Quashaun Niajel Slade (image courtesy Durham County Sheriff's Office)

DURHAM (WTVD) -- The Durham County Sheriff's Office says it is looking for 23-year-old Quashaun Niajel Slade in the shootings of 17-year-old Alexis Patterson and 19-year-old Dymond Patrice Fowler Monday night. Fowler died.

It happened just before 9:30 p.m. in the 4700 block of Glenn Road, just north of Interstate 85 near Falls Lake.

After the shooting, Patterson played dead, according to authorities, but was later able to run to a house on Glenn Road for help and was taken to the hospital.

Warrants have been issued charging Slade with first-degree murder, kidnapping, and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.

Anyone with information on Slade's whereabouts or the shooting is asked to call the Durham Sheriff's Office Communications Center at (919) 560-0900 or call Durham Crime stoppers at (919) 683-1200.

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