RFP Staff
♦ The featured image is of the house at 306 West Avenue “D” in Salisbury, N.C. where shotgun robbery target Joshua Victor Harrison collapsed near the porch.
As the shooting and unsolved murder count rises in violence-torn Salisbury, N.C. AKA “Shotzbury”, a cellphone cam photo of shotgun robbery target Joshua Victor Harrison collapsed near the porch at 306 West Avenue “D” was provided for the RFP. The photo shows Harrison sprawled in blood splatter on the cement prior to his pick up by Salisbury emergency responders and later airlift by helicopter to Carolinas Medical Center Northeast in Concord.
An experienced former Salisbury Police Department investigator studied the photograph of the victim’s wounds and believes he was shot with #6 shot or possibly buckshot. He told us that owing to the photo’s very limited resolution it was difficult to make a call about the exact distance at which the victim was shot. The former investigator saw no signs of a powder burn to indicate a close contact wound (3 to 6′), but the relatively close pattern would limit the distance. He roughly estimated the shooting distance to be in excess of 10′ because the shot appear to have begun to spread and no more than 30′ or the dark spots (appearing to be entry wounds) would likely be further apart.
WARNING: While the photo of shooting victim Joshua Victor Harrison sprawled on the ground near the porch at 306 West Avenue “D” is not as grizzly as many shooting photographs, the visual may be unsettling to some readers who may be disturbed by blood spatter and flesh wounds. We advise them NOT to look. This photo is NOT for children.
The RFP’s Article on the shooting:
The House at 306 West Avenue “D” in Salisbury, N.C.:
Joshua Victor Harrison:
