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Death toll increases from shootings in South Boston

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(SOUTH BOSTON, VIRGINIA – WINA)   The death toll has increased following a violent weekend in the town of South Boston.   Police say 20-year-old Davonte Shamar Powell of Halifax County was found shot to death Saturday night outside a Dollar Store.

A 17-year-old boy who had been shot in his neck during the same incident was transported to the Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina.   The South Boston teenager whose name was not released because of his age died later from his wounds.

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