
{"id":518,"date":"2007-06-28T09:06:21","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T17:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2007\/06\/28\/chapel-hill-youth-slain-in-durham\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T09:06:21","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T17:06:21","slug":"chapel-hill-youth-slain-in-durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2007\/06\/28\/chapel-hill-youth-slain-in-durham\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapel Hill youth slain in Durham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>15-year-old was student at Smith Middle School <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Kirk Ross<\/strong><br \/>\nStaff Writer <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Quincy Bowens is being hailed as a hero for his last act \u00e2\u20ac\u201d trying to get his two-year-old cousin safely inside as more than a dozen bullets raked the front of the apartment complex in Durham where his aunt lives.<\/p>\n<p>Bowens, a 15-year-old Smith Middle School student, was struck by a bullet Monday evening around 7 p.m. on the front porch of the apartment. He was taken to Duke Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Smith Middle School principal Valerie Reinhardt said that even though Bowens was new to the school \u00e2\u20ac\u201d he transferred there last October \u00e2\u20ac\u201d he was known as a fun-loving youngster with a cordial disposition.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He was a very joyful person,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Reinhardt said. But on a questionnaire about what he wanted to do in life, he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t shy away from addressing the problems he saw around him.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153He indicated he wanted to be an attorney and work with disadvantaged youths,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Reinhardt said.<\/p>\n<p>Like many who knew Bowens, who lived on Gomains Avenue in Chapel Hill, the Smith school community was still in shock Wednesday as word filtered out about the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was just so senseless,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Reinhardt said.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial arrangements have not been announced and Reinhardt said school officials are in contact with the family to find the right way to honor Bowens.<\/p>\n<p>Durham police have no suspects in the case and are looking for a gold, older-model Saturn sedan. Witnesses said the car was driven by a black male with medium complexion and dreadlocks or braids. According to a police report, there were conflicting reports of how many people were in the car at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the homicide is asked to call the Durham Police Department\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Criminal Investigations Division at 560-4440 or Crime Stoppers at 683-1200. Crime Stoppers pays cash rewards for information leading to arrests in felony cases and callers never have to identify themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15-year-old was student at Smith Middle School By Kirk Ross Staff Writer Quincy Bowens is being hailed as a hero for his last act \u00e2\u20ac\u201d trying to get his two-year-old cousin safely inside as more than a dozen bullets raked the front of the apartment complex in Durham where his aunt lives. Bowens, a 15-year-old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}