One person was taken to the hospital Sunday after a shooting on Cheek Road in Durham County. Details on the victim’s condition and any potential suspect have not been released.
The shooting was first reported by CBS 17, which confirmed that one person was injured and transported to a hospital following the incident. Beyond the location and the fact that one person was hurt, few other details about the shooting have been made public so far.
It remains unclear whether the shooting occurred within Durham’s city limits or in the unincorporated portion of the county, a distinction that determines which agency holds primary investigative authority. According to the Durham County Sheriff’s Office, its patrol division is chiefly responsible for roughly 200 square miles of unincorporated county territory, running four 10-deputy squads that field more than 30,000 calls annually with an average Priority 1 response time under nine minutes. Durham Police typically respond to incidents within city segments nearby, though the exact jurisdiction for this shooting has not been specified.
A Corridor With a Violent Past
Cheek Road has been the site of repeated violence over the years. In February, sheriff’s deputies responded to a stabbing in the 4000 block of the road, where a victim was struck in the head before the attacker fled the scene, the sheriff’s office reported. Further back, the corridor saw a homicide in the 2800 block in July 2020, investigated by sheriff’s detectives, and an October 2022 shooting at a Cheek Road gas station that killed 21-year-old Karizma Mebane, according to a report cited by the sheriff’s office…