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At Least 5 Killed, Including Off-Duty Police Officer, in Raleigh Shooting 5 Killed, Including Off-Duty Officer, as Gunman Stalks a Raleigh Neighborhood
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RALEIGH, N.C. — A gunman killed at least five people, including an off-duty police officer, in a shooting that turned a normally quiet residential area of Raleigh, N.C., into a sprawling crime scene on Thursday evening. RALEIGH, N.C. — A gunman killed five people, including an off-duty police officer, in a shooting Thursday night that turned a normally calm residential area of Raleigh, N.C., into a sprawling crime scene.
At least two others were wounded, including a police officer, whose injuries were described as “non-life threatening,” according to Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin. The authorities said late Thursday that a suspect, described only as a “white male juvenile,” was in custody. Earlier in the evening, they said that the suspect had been “contained.” A police spokesman did not specify the suspect’s age or provide any more information about him. They also did not identify a motive for the attack.
The authorities said late Thursday that a suspect was in custody. They had said earlier in the evening that a suspect had been “contained.” “Tonight, terror has reached our doorstep,” Gov. Roy Cooper said at a news conference just before 11 p.m. at the Raleigh Municipal Building. “The nightmare of every community has come to Raleigh. This is a senseless, horrific and infuriating act of violence.”
“All of us in Raleigh need to come together,” Ms. Baldwin said, her voice shaking with emotion. “We need to support those in our community who have suffered a terrible loss, a loss of a loved one.” Two others were wounded, among them a police officer who was released from the hospital late Thursday and another person who remained in critical condition, the authorities said. None of the victims were identified by the authorities.
The situation drew a large response from multiple law enforcement agencies to the residential area near the Neuse River Greenway, a popular bike trail for Raleigh residents. The Raleigh Police Department had asked residents of the Hedingham neighborhood, on the city’s East Side, to stay in their homes. Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin appeared visibly emotional as she tallied up the casualties at an earlier news conference. “All of us in Raleigh need to come together,” Ms. Baldwin said. “We need to support those in our community who have suffered a terrible loss, a loss of a loved one.”
Earlier in the evening, Gov. Roy Cooper said on Twitter that he had spoken with Raleigh’s mayor and that “state and local officers are on the ground and working to stop the shooter and keep people safe.” The attacks drew a forceful response from multiple law enforcement agencies that flooded the Hedingham neighborhood, on the city’s East Side, with emergency vehicles late Thursday afternoon. Residents said they had heard sirens at about 4 p.m. and that within an hour, the neighborhood of tidy, tree-lined streets was filled with scores of police cars that had sped to the scene.
The attacks threw the neighborhood, full of single-family homes and golf courses, into a virtual lockdown. Shortly before 6 p.m., the Raleigh police cautioned on Twitter: “Residents in that area are advised to remain in their homes.”
Traffic was at a standstill on Eagle Trace Drive, a normally quiet road with a plant-filled berm in the middle, about a mile and a half from the site. Sirens whined in the distance as the cars inched forward, and police cars with lights flashing nosed through. The neighborhood is near the Neuse River Greenway, a popular bike trail for Raleigh residents.
“I’m never going to get home,” Cheryl St. James, a nurse, said as she sat in her car. “I want to get home. I can’t believe this is happening in my neighborhood. It’s scary.” The shootings threw the neighborhood, full of single-family homes and golf courses, into a virtual lockdown.
Ms. Baldwin placed the shooting in the context of mass shootings across the country. “We must stop this mindless violence in America,” she said at a news conference. “We must address gun violence.” Traffic was at a standstill on Eagle Trace Drive, a normally quiet road with a plant-filled median, about a mile and a half from the site. Sirens wailed in the distance as the cars inched forward, and police vehicles with lights flashing nosed through.
Anne Berry, 52, who’s lived in the Avington Place neighborhood for over 20 years, said helicopters had intermittently been hovering above her home for more than three hours and that it was “loud enough to feel in your chest when they get close.” “I’m never going to get home,” said Cheryl St. James, a nurse, as she sat in her car. “I want to get home. I can’t believe this is happening in my neighborhood. It’s scary.”
Ethan Garner, a project manager who has lived in the area for three years, said that he left to get something to eat when he saw the police arriving about 5:30 p.m. Hours later, he was sitting in his car, trying to return, watching “House of the Dragon.” He said he walks on the Greenway but now might think twice about it.
“I leave my doors unlocked,” he said. “Yeah I have cameras, but I never worry about anything like that. Nothing’s ever happened.”
At 9:37 p.m., according to the police, the siege was over, with a suspect in custody.
At the later news conference, Ms. Baldwin referred to mass shootings across the country as she spoke about the Raleigh attack.
“We have to end this mindless gun violence that is happening in our country,” she said, adding that there are “too many victims.” “We have to wake up. I don’t want other mayors standing here at the podium with their hearts breaking because people in their community died.”
The shooting in Raleigh was the latest reminder of rampant gun violence across the country, including mass shootings at a supermarket in Buffalo that left 10 dead in May, another in May at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 children and two teachers, and another shooting at a Fourth of July celebration in Highland Park, Ill., that left seven dead.
Just a day earlier, two police officers were killed and a third was wounded in Connecticut in what the authorities described as an ambush after responding to a 911 call that may have been a hoax.
Thursday’s shooting was the deadliest shooting in North Carolina in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive. In 2009, a gunman opened fire at a nursing home in Carthage, N.C., killing seven elderly patients and a nurse and injuring several other people, including a police officer.
On Thursday, neighbors struggled to make sense of the Raleigh shooting.
Anne Berry, 52, who has lived in the Avington Place neighborhood of Raleigh for more than 20 years, said helicopters had intermittently been hovering above her home for more than three hours and that it was “loud enough to feel in your chest when they get close.”
A neighbor recounted to her that when he went to walk his dog, an officer stopped and asked him if he had seen anyone dressed in camouflage and then told him to head back inside, Ms. Berry said.A neighbor recounted to her that when he went to walk his dog, an officer stopped and asked him if he had seen anyone dressed in camouflage and then told him to head back inside, Ms. Berry said.
Another neighbor, Brad Redd, who has lived in the area for four years, described Hedingham as a multicultural and economically diverse place with a lake and a golf course. He said he was “flabbergasted” by the shooting.
“This is the last thing I would expect over here,” he said, adding “It’s going to shake this community.”