Man arrested, charged in fatal shooting at Chapel Hill apartment complex, police say
Chapel Hill police arrested and charged a 21-year-old man after a deadly shooting at the Camelot Village Apartments across from University Place mall, the department announced Saturday.
Police say Dearie William Bourne, a 21-year-old resident of Chapel Hill, was shot and killed Friday afternoon.
Jermaine Malik Jahquan Chance, a Mebane resident, has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting, police said. Chance was also charged with breaking and entering, larceny, and discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling, police said.
Chance is being held at Orange County Jail.
Town spokesperson Ran Northam said in an email Friday that multiple shots had been fired just before 2:45 p.m. The town later announced that Bourne had died and the shooting did not appear to be a random incident.
Camelot Village is at 130 S. Estes Drive, between Franklin Street and Fordham Boulevard.
Shootings are rare in Chapel Hill.
Last year one person was shot in the town, Northam said. Police continue to investigate the December shooting, which severely injured a food delivery driver.
All told, seven shooting incidents were reported in Chapel Hill in 2020. In addition to the shooting of the driver, police investigated three shootings into dwellings and three shootings into moving vehicles, Northam said in the email.
Police said the investigation into Friday’s shooting is continuing, and encouraged anyone with information to call 911 or Chapel Hill-Carrboro-UNC Crimestoppers at 919-942-7515.
Staff writers Julian Shen-Berro and Mark Schultz contributed to this story.
This story was originally published February 19, 2021 at 5:51 PM.
