KDH releases the names of Avalon Pier shooting suspect and fatally wounded victim

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In a release issued in the late afternoon on Friday, Aug. 1, the Town of Kill Devil Hills identified the teenager killed in the July 31 shooting at Avalon Pier as 19-year-old Zane Hughes and identified the 16-year-old suspect as Henry Lee Hargis of Kill Devil Hills.

Earlier in the day, Avalon Pier reported that the 15-year-old male wounded in the attack and flown to Norfolk for treatment had paid a visit to the Pier on Aug. 1.

Here are excerpts from the latest KDH release.

On Thursday, July 31, at approximately 2:37 p.m., Dare Central Communications received a report of shots fired with two individuals injured. Officers with the Kill Devil Hills Police Department, al

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