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Durham police have linked three men to two recent shooting incidents at Streets at Southpoint mall, although none of the three are in custody. 

<b>DURHAM, N.C.</b> — Durham police have linked three men to two recent shooting incidents at Streets at Southpoint mall, although none of the three are in custody. More people might face charges as the investigations into the incidents continue.

A Virginia man faces a charge of carrying a concealed gun in connection to the shooting that prompted chaos at the mall on Black Friday. Jaquaay Walton, 31, had not been arrested.

Police said Walton is not the man pictured in surveillance images circulated from the mall that day. Investigators are still trying to identify that man.

Durham police are trying to identify this man, who they believe was involved in a Nov. 26, 2021, shooting at the Streets at Southpoint mall that left three people wounded.

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Police have said three men arranged for a jewelry sale at the mall on the busiest shopping day of the year. At some point, the sale went wrong, and <a href="https://www.wral.com/story/police-vendor-would-be-robbers-exchanged-shots-setting-off-black-friday-stampede-at-southpoint-mall/20015540/">the men exchanged fire inside the mall</a>.

A man selling jewelry exchanged gunfire with two men trying to rob him a week ago at the Streets at Southpoint mall in Durham, police said.

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Three people were injured in that shooting, including one of the suspected robbers, a 26-year-old man. <a href="https://www.wral.com/story/three-shot-including-10-year-old-in-black-friday-shooting-at-the-streets-at-southpoint-one-in-custody/20003175/">Three other people were hurt</a> during the ensuing chaos, as shoppers fled the crowded mall or looked for safety.

About three weeks later, on Dec. 19, <a href="https://www.wral.com/story/durham-police-investigating-another-shooting-at-streets-at-southpoint/20043077/">there was a shooting in the mall parking lot</a>.

Investigators charged Isaiah Hargro-Burnette, 20, of Greensboro, with going armed to the terror of the public and carrying a concealed gun in that incident.

Durham police responded to a shooting at the Streets at Southpoint on Sunday just weeks after another report of gun violence at the mall.




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Durham police investigating another shooting at Streets at Southpoint 

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Police are still looking for another man linked to that shooting. A surveillance image distributed by police shows him to be Black, wearing light blue jeans, black Air Jordan sneakers and a black hoodie. Police say he may also drive a white Jeep.

Anyone with information on Hargro-Burnette’s whereabouts or information on the man in the photo is asked to call Durham police at 919-560-4440, ext. 29414 or Crime Stoppers at 919-683-1200. Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards for information leading to arrests in felony cases and callers never have to identify themselves.

Witnesses say a violent fight broke out in the food court at the Streets of Southpoint mall on Wednesday night. One witness said he saw a ban brandish a gun. Officials said one man was robbed of his gun and wallet during the fight. 

AS TWO OR MORE PEOPLE TESTING POSITIVE FOR THE VIRUS. >> AND OTHER VIOLENT INCIDENT AT STREETS OF SOUTHPOINT MALL IN DURHAM. VIEWERS WERE TO US DESCRIBING A LARGE FIGHT LAST NIGHT IN THE FOOD COURT. THIS ALL COMES DURING THE BUSY HOLIDAY SHOPPING SEASON AND AFTER TWO OTHER INCIDENTS LED TO PEOPLE STORMING THE EXITS. ADAM JOINS US IN DURHAM NOW WITH WHAT HAPPENED THIS TIME.>> Reporter: I SPOKE WITH A WITNESS WHO SAYS THEY WITNESSED THE FIGHT. THEY SAY AT ONE POINT SOMEONE WAS WAVING A GUN AROUND AND WHEN IT ENDED, THERE WAS AMMUNITION ON THE FLOOR. >> A WITNESS TELLS ME HE WAS IN THE FOOD COURT LAST NIGHT. TWO MEN WERE STANDING NEAR HIM, A SUSPECT RAN OFF AND ATTACKED ONE.>> HE STARTED GETTING PUNCHED IN THE BACK OF THE HEAD. >> MANY MORE SUSPECTS RAN UP ON THE PEOPLE. THEY STARTED ATTACKING. >> HE IS ON THE GROUND. THEY ARE KICKING AND PUNCHING HIM IN THE FACE. >> THE WITNESS SAYS HE SAW A GUN IN THE HAND OF ONE OF THE SUSPECTS. HE BELIEVES IT MAY HAVE FALLEN FROM A POCKET. >> HE IS WAVING AROUND A GUN. EVERYBODY STARTS RUNNING AWAY. ALL OF THEM RAN AWAY. THEY LEAD THE ONE GUY ON THE GROUND AND HE IS UNCONSCIOUS. THEN THERE IS AMMUNITION SPRINKLED ALL OVER THE GROUND. >> THE WHOLE THING LASTED MOMENTS AND NO SHOTS WERE FIRED. BUT THIS IS THE THIRD REPORTED INCIDENT AT THE MALL IN THE LAST TWO MONTHS. ON BLACK FRIDAY, THREE WERE HURT IN AN EXCHANGE OF GUNFIRE AND BACK IN OCTOBER, A LARGE FIGHT BROKE OUT IN THE FOOD COURT. GILLIS WORKS AT THE MALL.>> I CAN HONESTLY SAY I FEEL UNSAFE. I FEEL LIKE THIS NEEDS TO CHANGE FOR OUR COMMUNITY. THIS IS NOT GOOD.>> UNOFFICIAL TELLS ME THIS LATEST INCIDENT LAST NIGHT WAS DIFFUSED QUICKLY AND THERE WERE A FEW DISRUPTIONS TO THE ACTUAL SHOPPING CENTER. THEY TELL ME THEY HAVE ZERO TOLERANCE FOR THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOR AND THEY HAVE A CLOSE WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH DURHAM POLICE. MOMENTS AGO, POLICE CONFIRMED THEY ARE CONTINUING TO INVESTIGATE THIS MOST RECENT INCIDENT. MALL OFFICIALS SAY THEY CANNOT

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Three others – Elijah Sauls, 20, Messiah Whitten, 19, and a juvenile – were charged in connection to a <a href="https://www.wral.com/story/streets-at-southpoint-shooting-fight-third-incident-reported-at-southpoint-mall-in-two-months/20026148/">fight in the food court at the mall on Dec. 8</a>. Police have said two groups of people were invovled in a "physical confrontation" on that day, and at least one person pulled a gun.

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