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DURHAM -- A lady was shot and killed Tuesday at the Duke Health Center at 3116 N. Duke St., according to Durham police.
The sharpened occurred about 2:45 p.m. After a 40-minute search, a probable think was shot after he "engaged in a gunfight with police," Police Chief Jose Lopez said. The think after died of his injuries, military pronounced this morning.
Police identified the plant as Charlene King, 49, of Durham. The think was identified as Burnett Taylor, 51, of Durham.
Taylor was found circuitously the intersection of Broad and Carver streets, dual blocks from the clinic. He was severely bleeding and taken to Duke Hospital, where he died.
Lopez pronounced the deadly sharpened of the lady did not crop up to be a pointless action and that she is believed to have been the dictated target.
However, he pronounced he was not sure either the man who was shot was additionally the gunman at the Duke clinic.
"We dont know what happened," Lopez said. "The total situation is unfolding."
Officers precision circuitously were the initial to respond, Lopez said. A military K-9 section tracked the think to the 500 retard of Carver Street, rught away west of the Duke Street intersection. Police cordoned off a residence there, as well as the Duke hospital area.
The sharpened of the probable think is underneath review by Durham military and the State Bureau of Investigation, according to a recover from Durham Police mouthpiece Kammie Michael.
It was the fourth sharpened involving law coercion officers in Durham in 3 months.
On Apr 17, Joseph Cameron Pence, 44, was shot and killed by military after officers responded to a inform of an overdose and self-murder threats in the 600 retard of East Geer Street, according to police. Pence confronted an military military officer and was shot twice, according to police.
On Mar 13, a Duke Hospital military military military officer shot and killed Aaron Lorenzo Dorsey, 25, who had reached for an officers gun, according to a Duke spokesman.
In a nonfatal incident, Durham military shot a man Feb. twenty-seven after officers responded to reported gunfire circuitously Juliette Drive and Rosaline Lane in southern Durham, according to police.
Duke Medicine has canceled all of todays appointments at the North Duke Street clinic. Patients who have questions about their appointments can call 919-613-7650. Duke expects to free the hospital Thursday.
Staff writers Anne Blythe and Jim Wise contributed to this report.
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