GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - The Latest on the shooting deaths in Greensboro (all times local):
4:10 p.m.
Officials in Greensboro have gone door-to-door in five neighborhoods to reassure residents that police are working to make their areas safer after seven killings during the month of October.
The News & Record of Greensboro reports (https://bit.ly/2e5jctx) police, probation officers and elected officials went in search of witnesses following the latest shooting death.
Detective Tony Hinson said he was interviewing a 16-year-old in an early October slaying on Tuesday when officers were called to another fatal shooting. A third fatal shooting occurred Wednesday morning.
One man said ministers holding Bible study won’t even come to his neighborhood to pick him up.
City Councilwoman Sharon Hightower joined the door-to-door effort, saying the community wants to see things change and doesn’t like seeing the killings happen so close to home.
11:15 p.m.
A Greensboro man has died after being shot several times.
Police said in a statement that 27-year-old Sakwane Allah Wray was found about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. Wray was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
A neighbor said she heard four or five shots.
No arrests have been made.
The shooting was about a half mile from a grocery store where a security guard was shot and killed Tuesday night. Twenty-six-year-old Kwamane Devone Barnard was shot in that attack.
Capt. Nathaniel Davis said the community and the police need to work together to improve safety in the area.
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