Police release name of man shot and killed Saturday in northern Durham
Durham police on Monday identified a man shot to death in an apartment complex parking lot Saturday morning as 40-year-old Marques Valntae Johnson of Durham..
Around 6:21 a.m. officers responded to a report of man with a gunshot wound on the 1400 block of New Castle Road. The parking lot is an apartment complex in northern Durham off Stadium drive.Police said the shooting appeared to be an isolated incident but didn’t release any other information.
As of Jan. 18, the most recent statistics available, there had been nine people shot in Durham, two of them fatally, this year.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Investigator J. Kellar at 919-560-4440 ext. 29306 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.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
This story was originally published February 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM.
