Police name one of two victims who were in the car at the time of the shooting
Police identified the man who died in Sunday evening’s shooting in Durham and said a second man who was injured was released from the hospital.
Jonathan Lamont Johnson, 29, and another man were injured by gunfire before Johnson died from his injuries, police said. The other man was released from the hospital Monday, according to a news release.
The shooting likely happened in the area of South and Enterprise streets, Durham police said in a previous release.
Officers said they found Johnson about 8 p.m. inside a vehicle on University Drive near Hill Street. He died overnight from critical injuries, according a previous Durham police news release.
Someone brought the other man to the hospital with serious injuries, police said.
Earlier Sunday, a man was shot and killed at Durham’s McDougald Terrace public housing complex.
The shooting took place shortly after 1 p.m. on Wabash Street in front of Building 37, police said. The man was pronounced dead upon authorities’ arrival.
Violent crime was up 6% during the first nine months of 2019, with reported shootings up 17%, Durham Police Chief C.J. Davis told the City Council last Monday, as The News & Observer and The Herald-Sun previously reported.
Sunday afternoon’s shooting death brought the number of homicides this year in Durham to at least 35, compared to 32 in all of last year, according to city of Durham statistics.
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This story was originally published November 24, 2019 at 10:37 PM.
