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He killed a man as a teen. Now he’s charged with fatally shooting a woman in Durham.

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A Durham man convicted of murder as a teen has been charged with murder again in the fatal shooting of a woman this week just off of Chapel Hill Road.

Officers responded around 8:15 a.m. Tuesday to a home on Huron Street, where they found Katherine Bruno, 34, who had been shot; she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police arrested Dominique Lamont Arrington, 32, of Durham and charged him with murder. He is being held at Durham County Jail without bail.

The News & Observer asked police whether Arrington and Bruno knew each other and how he was taken into custody, but the department had not responded as of 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Arrington was convicted of second-degree murder in 2007, according to N.C. Department of Public Safety inmate information. Police said in 2005 that Arrington had fired shots at a man from an SUV and led police on a chase that ended with the car hitting a fence, WRAL reported. Arrington was only 16 at the time of the offense. He spent six and half years in prison, plus almost two years in jail awaiting trial.

Arrington was more recently accused of firing a bullet through a hat a man was wearing after getting into an argument in November 2016, said a police spokesperson, The News & Observer reported.

As of Feb. 6, there had been five criminal homicides in the city this year, according to the Durham Police Department’s website.

Last year there were 37 homicides in Durham, one fewer than the year before, according to the website.



This story was originally published February 17, 2021 at 12:14 PM.

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Ashad Hajela
The News & Observer
Ashad Hajela reports on public safety for The News & Observer and The Herald-Sun. He studied journalism at New York University.
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