2 die in separate Durham shootings within hours, blocks of each other

A teenage girl was killed in a Durham shooting at around 11:30 p.m. on Friday night, the Durham Police Department said.

Officers received a call that a girl had been shot on the 300 block of South Woodcrest Street, which is in a residential area of Durham east of downtown.

She was transported to a local hospital where she was later pronounced dead.

Then, shortly before 2 p.m. on Saturday, officers responded to a shooting in the 2700 block of Holloway Street.

Police said officers located an adult male inside a vehicle who had been shot. Following the shooting, the victim’s vehicle struck a utility pole causing a power outage in an area along Holloway St. from Junction Rd.

Durham police later said this was not random or an act of road rage.

The man was transported to the hospital where he later died.

Sherry Williams, a mother who lost two sons to gun violence also, talked with WRAL News at a vigil she was hosting for them not too far from where the shootings were.

"My heart shattered. My oldest and my youngest," said Williams. "Unimaginable.”

She said these shootings will keep happening if nothing is done.

“Now in Durham every time you turn on the news somebody’s child‘s been murdered and that brings up those feelings of you losing your child,” said Williams.

Williams started a support group called "Mothers of Murdered Kids after her oldest son was killed in 2007.

She said gun violence in Durham is worsening and she’s calling on Durham police to really get involved.

“I would like to see them come out come out speak with the mothers that have lost a child. I remember telling an investigator [they] can have Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays, Sunday dinner," said Williams. "I don’t get that. I have to go to the cemetery, and [they] make us promises that aren’t being kept.”

Both shootings are still under investigation.

Anyone with information in either shooting is asked to call CrimeStoppers at (919) 683-1200. CrimeStoppers pays cash rewards for information leading to arrests in felony cases and callers never have to identify themselves.