Man is charged in Durham slaying

Published: April 27, 2011 

— An Efland man has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a Durham man Monday night.

Police arrested Martin Dee Wayne Evans, 19, of Brookhollow Road in Efland, on Tuesday and charged him with the first-degree murder of Carl Lewis Powell of Danube Lane, Durham.

Officers were called to a parking lot near the Streets at Southpoint mall about 10:30 p.m. Monday, where they found Powell, 21, had been shot several times.

He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Evans is also been charged with misdemeanor breaking and entering and second-degree trespassing in connection with an unrelated domestic incident that was reported to Durham police Tuesday afternoon.

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