DURHAM — About 4:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon a man wasshot repeatedly in the backyard of a duplex at 103 W. Umstead St.Declared dead at the scene, he was Durham's 42nd murder victim of 1996.
Police identified the man as Cedric Lamont Alston, 19. No arrests hadbeen made by late Saturday night.
Alston was awaiting trial on charges stemming from a June 15 homeinvasion in northern Durham, when five men armed with pump shotgunsallegedly barged in and beat and sexually assaulted six residents.
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