Mayor and Police Chief Urge Parental Involvement as Summer Violence Rises
DURHAM, NC – Two teenagers were injured late Monday night in a shooting at an Airbnb rental on Fayetteville Road, prompting renewed calls from city officials for parental engagement as summer gun violence threatens to escalate.
The shooting occurred just before midnight on June 17 in the 3200 block of Fayetteville Road. Responding Durham police officers arrived to find a 17-year-old male suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg. He was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries…