Multiple Shootings & Homicide in Salisbury Add to Crime Concerns

SALISBURY, NC – “People are angry. They’re upset. Because it’s getting old. And we’re getting just a little bit tired of it,” explains Salisbury resident and community activist Chariel Dye.

She says it’s frustrating to hear about another killing.

Investigators say 28-year-old Demareo Bost died after being shot on Oakwood Avenue just after 10:00 Friday night.

Police were responding to a domestic disturbance call.

“It’s getting closer and closer to everybody’s doorstep. Nobody’s off limits,” Dye says.

Bost’s murder happened less than half a mile from where 7-year-old A’yanna Allen was killed back in December.

The little girl was asleep in bed when someone fired into the home on Harrell Street.

An autopsy showed she had 20 bullet wounds. There have been no arrests.

“You’re not even safe at home any more now,” says Salisbury resident Charlotte McMahan.

McMahan lives on South Shaver Street, near a home where two people were shot around 8:00 Friday night.

26-year-old Christopher Evans and 36-year-old Edwina Agnew were injured, but are expected to recover.

A few blocks down the road someone also shot into several cars.

“Stay in the house. That’s the best thing to do. But sometimes you’re not even safe in your house. Shoot in your house too,” says McMahan.

Last weekend, two people were hurt in a drive-by shooting when somebody sprayed a Victory Street house with bullets.

Albert Shelton Jr. was killed on the same street back in December.

“We really need to band together as a community and find out first of all, what’s going on. Why are our children out here like this? And second of all, what can we do to help them?” Dye asks.

She says it will take lots of people working together to end the violence.

“I think the community needs to be a little more helpful. And help getting some of these solved. Cause it’s your families, it’s your children, that are dying in these streets,” she says.