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18-year-old charged in double shooting at Raleigh apartment complex

Police were searching for clues Monday after a 36-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman were shot at a Raleigh apartment complex, authorities said.
Posted 2019-01-09T00:30:16+00:00 - Updated 2019-01-09T00:23:00+00:00
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A woman has been charged in connection with a double shooting on New Year's Eve in Raleigh.

Police found a 36-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman with gunshot wounds at an apartment complex in the 7100 block of Plumleaf Road on Dec. 31.

The two victims, identified in an arrest warrant as Diamond Belle-Vaney and Lawrence Strickland, were rushed for medical treatment to WakeMed for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

Elisha Nikole Dean, 18, was charged Tuesday with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and discharging a weapon into occupied property.

Dean was being held at the Wake County Detention Center under $250,000 bond.

The relationship between the victims and their identities has not yet been released.

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