Police identified the intruder as Diron Christopher Cannady, 23, alsoknown as Diron Pounds. Richard L. Reid, 25, was also killed.
The shootout occurred at Trinity Place Apartments at 310 W. TrinityAve. Police said two armed masked men kicked in the door of a second-floorapartment. While one gunman dealt with a man and woman on a livingroomsofa, the other went to a rear bedroom occupied by another couple. Theman in the bedroom grabbed his own gun and exchanged fire.
Reid, who lived in the apartment with his younger brother Corey, wasshot several times and died at the scene.
Cannady was carried by his partner out of the apartment, but the manleft Cannady on the second-story balcony, and then ran off. He remains atlarge.
The other three occupants of the apartment were not physically injured.
The 40 slayings in Durham are a record -- five more thanthe city recorded in all of 1995.
Tonight, Durham Congregations inAction is holding a forum for anyoneinterested in voicing their concerns about growing violence in the city.The forum starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Watts Street Baptist Church.
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