Surtonia Burton, 51, a woman from Statesville, was found just after 1:30 p.m. on August 2, 2025, lying in front of a home in the 1000 block of Fifth Street with multiple gunshot wounds. First responders rushed her to a local hospital, where she died a short time later. Detectives from the Statesville Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division and Violent Crimes Unit processed the scene and interviewed witnesses while the neighborhood absorbed the shock of a broad-daylight shooting on
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