By Associated Press - Monday, April 10, 2017

HICKORY, N.C. (AP) - A third person has died from injuries in a shooting at a bar in western North Carolina.

Hickory police said in a news release that 21-year-old Quajaue Alexus Kennedy died Saturday night at Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem.

Hickory police were called to a bar around 2:30 a.m. Friday and say someone had fired into a car with five people inside.



Twenty-one-year-old Justin Aiken of Newton died at Frye Hospital in Hickory. Twenty-one-year-old Cody Bouphavong of Conover died at a Charlotte hospital.

A fourth person was treated and released from a Charlotte hospital.

Two people have been arrested and charged with murder, 23-year-old Dontray Cumberlander and 23-year-old Greydon Hansen.

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