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Dunn Man Sought in Shooting

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Law officers were called to this house in Wade, following a fatal shooting.(WRAL-TV5 News)
WADE — Cumberland County sheriff's deputies are searching for a man from Dunn. They believe he was involved in a fatal shooting Saturday night.

Twenty-one-year-old Franco Evans was shot to death about 11 p.m. at a house in Wade.

The sheriff's office says Evans had an earlier confrontation with a man named Joe Nathan Ward.

They believe Ward is the one who shot Evans. Now they're hunting for 41-year-old Ward.

Anyone who knows where Joe Nathan Ward is is asked to call the Cumberland County Sheriff's office.

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