AT APPROXIMATELY 4:45 IN THE AFTERNOON, DEONTE DARRINGTON WAS WALKING ON SOUTH 7TH STREET WITH TWO FRIENDS WHEN A SUBJECT WALKED UP TO THEM. THE MAN PULLED A PISTOL AND POINTED IT AT DEONTE AND HIS FRIENDS WHO TRIED TO ESCAPE BY RUNNING AWAY. THE GUNMAN FIRED SEVERAL SHOTS AT THEM AND DEONTE WAS STRUCK BY SEVERAL BULLETS. DEONTE RAN TO THE 600 BLOCK OF SOUTH SEVEN... THE STREET WHERE HE COLLAPSED ON THE SIDEWALK. CITIZENS FLAGGED DOWN A PATROL OFFICER WHO CALLED FOR AN AMBULANCE. DEONTE WAS TRANSPORTED TO VANDERBILT HOSPITAL WHERE HE DIED A
SHORT TIME LATER. DEONTE MAY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN AN ALTERCATION WITH SOMEONE ABOUT AN HOUR BEFORE THE SHOOTING AND POLICE HAVE NOT DETERMINED IF THAT WAS RELATED TO HIS MURDER. THE GUNMAN WAS DESCRIBED AS BEING A MALE BLACK
TEENAGER WITH LONG DREADLOCKS. HE WAS ABOUT FIVE FEET TEN INCHES TALL AND WEIGHED ABOUT 160 POUNDS .
SHORT TIME LATER. DEONTE MAY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN AN ALTERCATION WITH SOMEONE ABOUT AN HOUR BEFORE THE SHOOTING AND POLICE HAVE NOT DETERMINED IF THAT WAS RELATED TO HIS MURDER. THE GUNMAN WAS DESCRIBED AS BEING A MALE BLACK
TEENAGER WITH LONG DREADLOCKS. HE WAS ABOUT FIVE FEET TEN INCHES TALL AND WEIGHED ABOUT 160 POUNDS .
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