8 shot in 3 days in Durham: Two shot at Durham apartment complex, 4th shooting this week
A man and woman were shot just after midnight on Friday morning at a Durham apartment complex.
This marks the fourth shooting in Durham in just three days, culminating in eight people having been shot in 26 hours.
Durham police said the shooting happened at The Village at Auburn Apartments on Woodcroft Parkway.
At 12:09 a.m., officers responded to a report of a gunshot wound in the 800 block of Woodcroft Parkway. While on their way, officers were flagged down in the 5700 block of Barbee Road, where they found a man who had been shot. He was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Officers found three bullets in that shooting went through a resident's window as shattered glass was still scattered across the bed where her daughter was sleeping.
When officers arrived at the main scene on Woodcroft Parkway, they found a woman who had also been shot. She was also taken to the hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.
Three unoccupied cars were hit by gunfire. One apartment with at least one person inside was also struck by gunfire.
The shooting remains under investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 919-683-1200 or online at durhamcrimestoppers.org.
Eight people have been shot in Durham in the past three days. A woman was shot Thursday evening near McDougald Terrace. Just a few hours before this shooting, a group of men got into an argument and fired shots near the downtown bus terminal.
On Wednesday morning, a man was shot while driving near the intersection of West Knox Street and Alabama Avenue, where he had crashed into two other parked vehicles. Later that day, four people were shot at the Duke Manor apartments; one man died.
Around the city, many are frustrated and anxious about their safety and their family's safety.
Some feel unsafe on the bus and in their homes.
Candice Herring is often at the bus terminal and she said she doesn't feel safe on or off the bus.
"This happens all the time," she said. "And the police, they can only do so much. And being, coming up here, I sometimes get a little unsafe, because sometimes it'll escalate to where it'll happen on the bus."
