Four Charged in North Carolina Shootings
DURHAM, N.C. -- Police have charged four men in connection with an Oct. 23 shooting that injured two children and a man.
Officers responding to a call at 1:13 p.m. found a 48-year-old man wounded outside 210 N. Driver St. and a 1-year-old girl and a 3-year-old boy shot inside a house at 204-A N. Driver St. All three were taken to Duke Hospital for treatment.
One suspect, John Tarver, 23, of 204-B N. Driver St., is in custody, charged with shooting the a man, whose name was not released.
Investigators also have charged Arthur Clendenning, 24, of North Hyde Park Avenue; Tavarez Brown, 24, of Spruce Street; and Jaunarais King, 23, of Kent Lake Drive with shooting the children. Police are still looking for all three.
Tarver was arrested last week and charged with shooting Tavarez Brown on Oct. 17 on Fern Street. Brown was shot several times in the buttocks during a drive-by shooting. He was treated for his injuries at Duke Hospital.
Investigators think that on Oct. 23, the occupants of a blue vehicle were seeking retaliation for the Fern Street shooting when they fired shots at Tarver, who was standing on the porch of 204-B N. Driver St. The shots missed Tarver but entered 204-A N. Driver St., wounding two children who were inside that house.
Tarver is charged with shooting the man, 48, when he returned fire at the car. The man was standing on the corner and was apparently not the intended target.
Tarver was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in connection with the Driver Street incident, according to a police news release. He also is charged with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in connection with the Oct. 17 Fern Street incident. He is in Durham County Jail under a $1.5 million bond.
Clendenning, Brown and King each have been charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, one count of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and one count of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling, according to the news release.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Clendenning, Brown or King is asked to call investigators at 919-560-4281, ext. 29123 or Crime Stoppers at 919-683-1200.
Crime Stoppers pays cash for information leading to arrests in felony cases; callers do not have give their name.
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