Vigil today in Raleigh for teen shooting victim
Published: Tue, Nov. 25, 2008 11:41AM
Modified Tue, Nov. 25, 2008 11:56AM
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closeRALEIGH -- Community activists and St. Augustine College students are holding a prayer vigil this afternoon in remembrance of a 16-year-old boy who was shot to death Friday night.
The vigil will take place at 3 p.m. in the 300 block of N. Tarboro Street, Octavia Rainey, a longtime community activist said this morning. The school's student body president is organizing the prayer vigil, Rainey said.
Police found Adarius Monquell Fowler in the 300 block of N. Tarboro Street just before 9 p.m., authorities reported. The shooting occurred near a cluster of mom-and-pop stores near the intersection of Oakwood Avenue, across from the St. Augustine College campus.
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Fowler, who lived on East Lane Street, died at WakeMed, police reported.
Fowler was the fifth Raleigh teenager to die in violence this year.
No arrests have been made in the Fowler's shooting, and investigators are seeking tips from the public to find the person responsible.
Anyone with information that might help investigators is asked to call the Police Department's Detective Division at 919-996-3555 or CrimeStoppers at 919-226-2746.
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