DURHAM, N.C. (WNCN) — Flowers now sit where 17-year-old Terrick Strudwick was shot and killed at the Cornwallis Road apartment complex in Durham on Tuesday night.
The young victim’s father spoke with CBS 17 over the phone on his way back home.
“It makes your heart stop beating,” father Terrick Strudwick Sr. said. “Just to wonder where would he be in life, the potential to see him grow cut short.”
Previously: Durham teenager charged with murder of 17-year-old, police say
On Thursday, Durham police announced the arrest of 16-year-old Corinthian Poole , who is charged as an adult with murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
“It’s just a lot of violence going on in the City of Durham,” Strudwick Sr. said. “It’s a lot of violence going on everywhere in the world, but specifically in that area and with young teens. I don’t understand.”
It’s been two days since the shooting took place, and people living at Cornwallis Road said bullets were flying everywhere. A car still parked at the scene of the crime with a bullet hole and shattered windows provides a harrowing glimpse of what took place that night.