Man accused of killing teen in Durham turns himself in. Victim may not have been target.

A man wanted in an April shooting turned himself in to Durham police Saturday, but investigators still don’t know if the teen who was killed was the intended target.

Mychal Quinton Mercer, 33, is accused of killing 19-year-old Ashir Harrington, who was found fatally shot by police officers responding to a gunshots call in a parking lot near West Morgan and Watts streets around 2 a.m. April 28.

Emergency Medical Services workers took Harrington to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

Harrington is survived by his parents, his maternal grandparents and his paternal grandmother, according to an online obituary.

In addition to murder, Mercer has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, discharging a weapon into an occupied property, and injury to personal property in connection with the April incident.

Shots fired at taco truck, Jaguar and Charger

According to court records, shots were fired into a taco truck on West Main Street, a 2020 Jaguar and a 2018 Dodge Charger.

However, police said in an email Wednesday that Harrington was not in any of the vehicles and they do not know if he was the intended target.

Mercer also was served with an outstanding warrant for an embezzlement charge. He is being held without bail in the Durham County jail.

As of Aug. 10, 145 people had been shot in Durham this year, 21 of them fatally, according to police statistics.

Twenty of the total people shot this year, like Harrington. had been 18 to 20 years old.