Durham police capture barricaded suspect!

Durham SET Team officers take William Yohe into custody at his house on Barnsdale Ct. in the Hope Valley Farms sub-division. Mr. Yohe had threatened a security guard by indicating that he would shoot him with a shotgun, then barricaded himself inside his residence when officers responded to the call.  After lobbing almost two dozen tear gas canisters into the home, officers stormed the front door, and after breaking down the reinforced door, they were finally able to overpower Mr. Yohe and take him into custody.

Durham SET Team officers hook up a steel cable to the reinforced grille on the suspects door and tear it off it's hinges with their armored car.

Driver who fled DUI checkpoint dies in head-on crash !!!

Firefighters work to extinguish the fire after a driver died in a head-on collision while being chased by State Troopers early Saturday morning. The driver fled a DUI checkpoint in the vicinity of N. Adams St. at Joyland about 2.30 am. Troopers chased the driver eastbound on NC 98 at speeds in excess of 100 mph until the suspect car ran head-on into a furniture truck near Southview Rd. The driver of the truck and a companion were injured but not critically. At least one of the troopers also crashed at the scene when his cruiser struck and snapped a power pole. NC 98 was closed for hours.

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Durham SET Officers arrest a man who stabbed to death a 13 year old girl and injured several of her family members.  The arrest came after a protracted armed standoff at an apartment on North Street.

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Friends of Shakana China, right, react as the body of their friend is carried out of the church after her funeral service. 

She was shot to death in a drive by shooting three days before.

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Young pallbearers carry the casket of a toddler who was struck and killed by a stray bullet from feuding gang members.