Durham police investigate the city’s first shooting death of 2020
A 44-year-old man was shot and killed early Monday in Durham, marking the city’s first shooting death of 2020.
Durham police responded to a report of a shooting on the 700 block of Gray Avenue around 12:30 a.m. Ronald Callanan Jr. was taken to a hospital, where he died.
The man was sitting in his car in a residential area between the Cleveland-Holloway and Albright neighborhoods., according to ABC11, The News & Observer’s newsgathering partner.
In addition, two people were injured when someone fired shots in the Discount Mart convenience store on Fayetteville Street around 7 a.m. Monday, multiple media outlets reported. Their injuries were not life threatening. Fayetteville Street Elementary School was briefly on lockdown.
In 2019, 43 people were killed in Durham County. One of those killings occurred outside the city in the county. Four of those killings were classified as self-defense and one as negligent manslaughter.
That leaves the city’s total number of homicides in 2019 at 37.
In 2019, three people were killed on Jan. 1 in two different incidents.
Anyone with information is asked to call Investigator A. Bongarten at 919-560-4440 ext. 29529 or CrimeStoppers at 919-683-1200.
This story was originally published January 6, 2020 at 7:53 AM.
