Durham resident trades gunfire with man outside his home
DURHAM (WTVD) -- The Durham Police Department has charged a man after he got shot outside a Durham resident's home early Friday morning.
It happened around 4:30 a.m. in the 3900 block of Cole Mill Road.
The Durham resident told investigators he was woken by someone honking a horn in his driveway and flashing their car lights.
He got his gun and went outside.
A woman he did not know told him she needed to use his phone because she had had a fight with a relative.
That's when a man armed with a gun then came around the corner of the house and the resident and the man traded gunfire.
The resident was not injured.
Shortly before 5 a.m., 26-year-old Jerel Antonio Thompson came to Duke Regional Hospital for treatment of injuries that do not appear to be life-threatening.
Thompson is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.
