On May 25, 2023, 19-year-old Zion Craig Bowden of Raleigh was fatally shot in Durham. The shooting happened shortly after midnight in the 300 block of Ganyard Farm Way, a residential street off Holloway Street. Durham officers found Bowden with gunshot wounds and he was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Authorities asked anyone with information to contact Investigator Z. Starritt at (919) 560-4440 ext. 29303 or CrimeStoppers at (919) 683-1200; CrimeStoppers is offering up to $2,000 for tips leading to arrests and callers can remain anonymous. Bowden’s death was the third homicide in Durham that week. He was remembered at a June 4, 2023 funeral at Union Grove Church of Christ Disciple of Christ in Clinton and buried in the McLamb Family Cemetery; survivors include his parents Lavonda and Antoinne Craig Bowden, brothers Jordan Omar Bowden and Isaac Antoinne Bowden, and grandparents Margaret Hooks, Brenda Boone, and River Earl Bowden.

If anyone knew Zion or has information about what happened that night, please contact the listed investigators or CrimeStoppers.