Durham police identify man found shot to death in Guess Road parking lot

Durham police have identified a man found shot to death Tuesday night on Guess Road as 32-year-old Trocon George of Durham.

Officers were dispatched shortly after 8:30 p.m. to a parking lot in the 1500 block of Guess Road in the Walltown neighborhood and found George in a parking lot outside a local business. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

As of May 18, the most recent statistics available, there had been 17 reported homicides in Durham this year.

That was down from 19 homicides by the same time last year and up from 16 homicides the year before that.

More people shot in Durham this year

George’s death comes as shootings are up year over year.

A total of 87 people had been shot this year in Durham as of May 18, including 15 people who were fatally shot, police crime statistics show.

That compares to 70 people shot by the same time in 2023 and 92 people by the same time in 2022, police statistics show.

Anyone with information about Tuesday’s shooting is asked to contact Investigator D. Bussell at 919-560-4582 x29254 or CrimeStoppers at 919-683-1200 or online at www.durhamcrimestoppers.org.

CrimeStoppers pays cash rewards of up to $2,000 for information leading to arrests in felony cases and callers never have to identify themselves.

We will update this story as we get more information.

This story was originally published May 22, 2024 at 8:31 AM.