1 dead, 2 hospitalized in separate shootings in Salisbury

SALISBURY, N.C. — Police are investigating two separate shootings Friday night in Salisbury that happened less than a mile apart, leaving one man dead and two other people in the hospital.

Officers told Channel 9 that around 10:15 p.m. they were called to a home on Oakwood Avenue, near Faith Avenue, for a domestic disturbance.

While heading to the scene, police were told that shots had been fired.

When they arrived they found Demareo Bost, 28, suffering from a gunshot wound. Officers performed CPR on him but he died at the scene.

Two hours before that shooting, Salisbury police responded to another shooting, on South Shaver Street, near Innes Street.

Police told Channel 9 that the suspects shot two people, several parked cars and a house. Both victims, 26-year-old Christopher Evans and 36-year-old Edwina Agnew, suffered non-life threatening injuries, officials said.

It has been a turbulent winter for the town of Salisbury. In December, someone shot and killed 7-year-old Ayanna Allen. According to an autopsy, she received 20 gunshot wounds.

No one was ever arrested in her shooting, and the recent violence has community members angry.

Some neighbors told Channel 9 that they were outside and witnessed the shooting that happened in the middle of South Shaver Street.

Harold McMahan said he was driving to his house around 8 p.m. when he saw six young people in the middle of Shaver Street, firing their guns at a nearby house.

He said people inside that house were shooting back.

“Somebody's gonna get hurt and gonna get hurt bad and it's gonna be somebody innocent,” said McMahan. “I've had enough of it."

"They act like it's the wild wild west over here. They just shoot and dont' care where the bullets go," said Charlotte McMahan, Harold's wife.

There has been no word of any arrests and no suspect information has been released in either of these cases.

Salisbury police, the Rowan County Sheriff's Office and the SBI are investigating.

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