A vehicle carrying two adult women and two children under 18 was struck by a bullet in Durham just before 3:30 p.m. Friday while traveling southbound on Duke Street near Horton Road. None of the occupants were injured, but Durham police are now asking the public for help finding whoever opened fire.
According to WRAL, officers responded to a shooting call after the gunfire, which came from inside a vehicle, struck the car near the Duke Street and Horton Road area. Police are looking for the shooter and have asked anyone with information to come forward, the station reports.
Those with tips can contact Durham police or CrimeStoppers at (919) 683-1200, or submit an anonymous tip online at durhamcrimestoppers.org, per the same account. No further details on a suspect description, weapon, or motive have been released.
A Separate Friday Shooting Nearby
ABC11 described a shooting in the 3500 block of North Roxboro Street that left two men dead and a woman injured.
ABC11 identified the two men killed in that shooting as 23-year-old Tevin Burney and 26-year-old Jarrett Godfrey, both pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators in that case asked anyone with information to contact Investigator A. Junker or CrimeStoppers.
Part of a Pattern of Gunfire on Durham Roadways
Shootings involving vehicles on Durham streets are not new to the city. ABC11 has also reported on a separate drive-by shooting on Barbee Road that injured at least two people, while CBS17 reported that a man and a woman were seriously hurt near NC Central University after shots were fired from a passing vehicle in the area of Concord and Dupree Street.
Back in 2021, WRAL detailed a night of overnight gunfire across multiple Durham streets, with shootings occurring less than an hour apart and within 3.5 miles of each other, prompting road closures. CBS17 has also reported that Durham recorded 10 deadly shootings in the first three months of 2026 compared with five in the same period the year before, describing a sharp rise in shooting deaths and injuries, though the full methodology behind that comparison was not detailed.
The City of Durham maintains a public portal for current and past crime statistics, and the Durham Open Data Portal hosts a dataset on police-tracked shooting events, though no verified figures from either source were available for this incident. For now, Friday's daytime shooting near Duke Street and Horton Road remains under investigation, with police still searching for whoever fired the shot that struck the car.
