Overview
- Officers responded around 4.50pm on January 15 to reports of a disturbance on Stockton Road at the Asda Express/Esso forecourt.
- A vehicle is believed to have collided with a pedestrian, who was pronounced dead at the scene by emergency crews.
- Durham Constabulary arrested three people in connection with the incident as the murder investigation gets underway.
- The B1285 section between The Mallard pub and the petrol station remains closed, with a blue forensic tent and a smashed shopfront visible behind the cordon.
- NEAS deployed a paramedic ambulance, a rapid response doctor, a clinical team leader, a specialist paramedic and a HART crew, and police asked anyone with information to contact 101.