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Cary police identify three injured in weekend shooting that killed a fourth victim

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Cary police on Monday identified three people injured in a weekend shooting that also left one man dead.

Officers responding to gunfire near the 100 block of Reed Street in Cary, close to the intersection of Maynard Road and Chatham Street, found Eric Hernan Salas-Nepomuceno, 22, of Durham suffering from a gunshot wound around 2 a.m. Saturday. He died from his injuries.

Three other people were injured. Edgar Eduardo Salas-Nepomuceno, 22, and Naymir Solis-Rosario, 22, have been treated and released from the hospital. Lesly Castillo, 20 is in serious but stable condition. All of them are from Durham, according to the Cary Police Department.

On Wednesday, police arrested a suspect in the shooting and charged him with murder and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Cary police Lt. John Reeves asked anyone with information on the shooting to contact Cary Crimestoppers at 919-460-4636.

CORRECTION: A previous version of this story mistakenly identified two of the shooting victims as male.

This story was originally published February 14, 2021 at 6:14 PM.

Tyler Dukes
The News & Observer
Tyler Dukes is the lead editor for AI innovation in journalism at McClatchy Media, where he leads a small team of journalists that helps the company’s 30 local newsrooms responsibly harness data, automation and artificial intelligence to elevate and strengthen their reporting. He was previously an investigative reporter at The News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C. In 2017, he completed a fellowship at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. He is a graduate of North Carolina State University and grew up in Elizabeth City, N.C.
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