Police say 27-year-old William Albert Stroud shot his stepfather, 51-year-old Marshall Ralph Brown, to death on Sykes Street Tuesday afternoon. Last month, 65-year-old Garland Mcray King killed his son-in-law in the parking lot of Carrboro Plaza, police say.

These were the first murders in Chapel Hill or Carrboro since a shooting outside the Avalon night club in July 2006.

The shooting Tuesday took placed at Sykes Street and Gomains Avenue.

Stroud was taken into custody after police tracked him to the nearby Pine Knolls neighborhood. They also found the burgundy Chevrolet Cavalier in which police say Stroud fled the scene.

On Aug. 26, another shooting at the same intersection wounded Lamont Alston, 17, the brother of Quincy Bowens, 15, who was the fatal victim of another drive-by shooting in Durham in June.

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