The shooting began around 5 p.m. in the Hedingham neighborhood near Osprey Cove Drive and Bay Harbor Drive. Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson said Friday morning that the crime scene stretched about 2 miles across the neighborhood. The suspect first shot a relative inside their home. He then went outside and shot two women on the streets of the neighborhood before running toward the Neuse River Greenway Trail. Before reaching the footpath, he shot Officer Gabriel Torres, who was on his way to start his shift with the police department. “He’s an off-duty Raleigh police officer. (The shooter) shot him for no reason. He’s bleeding from his chest,” a 911 caller told 911. The teenager then went onto the Greenway trail where he opened fire, killing two other people and injuring two others. Witnesses said the suspect was armed with a long gun, but investigators have not released any confirmation or details about the weapon. Terror spread through the city Thursday afternoon as the suspect remained on the loose for hours with police calling it an active shooter situation. Eventually, an RPD K-9 officer located the suspect in a shed where he had been hiding after the shootings. Shortly after 9:30 p.m., the teenager was taken into custody at Old Milburnie Road and McConnel Oliver Drive. He had life-threatening injuries when he was admitted — investigators said he was in critical condition at WakeMed. Investigators have not said whether the suspect was self-inflicted or injured by officers who took him into custody. His identity has also not been released, although ABC News has confirmed that he was a relative of one of the victims he killed. SEE ALSO: What we know about the shooting victims The motive of the attacker remains unknown. RPD said officers are continuing to investigate and will release a five-day report, as is customary for incidents like this. “Today we are sad, we are angry and we want to know the answers to all the questions,” Gov. Roy Cooper said Friday morning. “I think we all know the basic truth — no neighborhood, no parent, no child, no grandparent, no one should feel this fear in their communities — no one.” According to the Associated Press, this event was the 25th mass killing of 2022 in which victims were fatally shot. Mass murder is defined as four or more people (not including the perpetrator) being killed. In North Carolina, this marks the 123rd mass killing since 2013. In total, this violence resulted in 128 deaths and 463 injuries. Five people died in the shooting, including an off-duty police officer. Two other people were injured in the shooting — one of them remains in the hospital with serious injuries. the other, who has been released from the hospital, is an officer.
Reaction to the shooting
“My heart is heavy because we don’t have answers as to why this tragedy happened,” Patterson said Friday morning during a news conference. “But what I can tell you is that the Raleigh Police Department and the Raleigh community are resilient and we are strong and we will heal.” A lot of people are still just trying to process what all unfolded in that neighborhood. “There are enough families in our community who woke up this morning without their loved ones,” said Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin. “No one can imagine what everyone is going through.” ABC11 spoke with a neighbor who can’t believe what happened. “Right now I’m just confused, you know? Quiet neighborhood. I haven’t seen so much violence like this in a minute, man. Just shocking, man, you know?” Lavarius Thompson said. Another resident who spoke to ABC11 said the neighborhood was in shock. “A lot of police activity, honestly I was actually at home with my kid, my older kid, and we were hearing a lot of sirens and it was kind of alarming because it was more than just a couple,” Victoria McGraw said. . “The most worrying part had to be my youngest daughter, she was with her dad, and she kept calling me, like it was happening, and she saw a flood of police coming in and then I looked out and there. there were policemen up and down the street.” Law enforcement response It took a multi-agency effort to apprehend the suspect. Several agencies, along with the Raleigh Police Department responded and were on the ground to participate in the manhunt until the suspect was taken into custody. Copyright © 2022 WTVD-TV. All rights reserved.
