Durham police identify 18-year-old found fatally shot Sunday; 2nd man injured

Mark Schultz

August 12, 2024 at 2:10 p.m.·1 min read

Durham police on Monday identified a man who was fatally shot Sunday as 18-year-old Devondra Mack of Durham.

Two people, including Mack, were found shot just after 1 a.m in the area of North Roxboro Street and West Club Boulevard.

The second person who was shot, another adult male, was taken to a local hospital by Emergency Medical Services with non-life-threatening injuries. His name was not released.

Police have released no other information.

What Durham shooting statistics show

The number of people shot in Durham is up this year compared to the previous two years, the Police Department’s crime statistics show.

As of Aug. 3, 140 people had been shot in the city, 21 of them fatally.
There were 119 people shot (23 fatal) by the same time in 2023 and 139 people shot (22 fatal) by the same time in 2022.
Twenty of the 140 people shot this year, or 14%, were 18 to 20 years old..

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Investigator J. Turner at 919-560-4440 ext. 29532 or CrimeStoppers at 919-683-1200 or online at durhamcrimestoppers.org. CrimeStoppers pays cash rewards of up to $2,000 for information leading to arrests in felony cases, and callers never have to identify themselves.

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