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Man Sought in Rocky Mount Slaying
Police were searching Wednesday for a 24-year-old man in connection with a fatal shooting Tuesday afternoon.
Posted — UpdatedROCKY MOUNT, N.C. — Police were searching Wednesday for a 24-year-old man in connection with a fatal shooting Tuesday afternoon.
Officers responded to a reported shooting on West Thomas and North Pine streets at about 4:15 p.m. Tuesday and found Johnny Antonio Best had been wounded. Best was taken to Nash General Hospital, where he died.
Warrants were issued charging Dexter Lamar Dunston with first-degree murder in the case.
Anyone with information about Dunston's whereabouts was asked to call the Rocky Mount Police Department or Crime Stoppers at 252-977-1111.
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