Weekend shootings leave 1 dead, 11 injured

DURHAM -- Gun violence left one person dead and one injured Saturday night and 10 more people wounded in a separate shooting early Sunday morning.

Police arrested two men in the fatal shooting but have no suspects in Sunday's incident.

Yellow police tape marked off most of Fidelity Drive and Delano Street in an East Durham neighborhood Sunday morning, where 10 people were shot, according to police.

Most neighbors, who sat on front porches in the cool September air, weren't willing to talk about the incident.

Officers responded to the shooting around 4 a.m. in the 1100 block of Delano Street, a police statement said. Witnesses said a car stopped in front of a house, and shots were fired by the occupants of the car.

The 10 people who were hurt included two with serious injuries, police said. None was identified. Investigators said they do not have a motive or suspect descriptions.

Blue and yellow evidence tags littered the front yard of 1103 Delano St. Crime scene investigators walked up and down Fidelity Drive, wearing rubber gloves, taking photos and hauling away items in brown paper bags.

George Broadie, 17, who lives a block from Delano Street, said he was sleeping and jolted awake to a dozen or so gunshots Sunday morning. He ran to his window to see what was happening, he said.

"I heard people screaming, and then I saw people running," he said. "I just closed my door and went back to bed."

Robin McNeil didn't see Sunday's incident but said she walks past the home where police were investigating the multiple shootings every morning around 4 a.m. on her way to make biscuits at a nearby Hardee's.

McNeil described the home as a "liquor house," where large parties occur most weekend nights. A "liquor house" or "shot house" is a place, usually a residence, where alcoholic drinks are sold illegally. Police did not give any details about Sunday's shooting, including the exact address or what people were doing at the house.

"When I came to work Friday morning, there were a lot of people outside arguing," McNeil said. "And last week, I heard shooting."

She added, "I stay down at the end of the street with a baseball bat because I'd rather be safe than sorry."

Second Durham shooting

Police arrested two people in connection with the fatal shooting late Saturday night on Chapel Hill Road.

Officers were dispatched to a shooting in the 2900 block of Chapel Hill Road at 10:21 p.m. on Saturday, police said in a statement. When they arrived, they found two men who had been shot. One was pronounced dead at the scene, and the second was transported to Duke University Hospital.

Witnesses told officers the suspects fled in a red Toyota RAV4. A few minutes later officers stopped a red RAV4 occupied by three men in the 2500 block of S. Roxboro Street. Two men - Deandre Roosevelt Rucker, 18, of Nebo Street, and a 15-year-old juvenile - were arrested. The third fled and has not been apprehended.

Rucker was charged with murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon. He was placed in Durham County Jail without bond. The juvenile was placed in the Durham County Youth Home.

Anyone with information on either of these shootings is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 683-1200.

Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards for information leading to arrests in felony cases, and callers never have to identify themselves.