A 15-year-old suspect was arrested on Friday after a shooting that left five dead in the North Carolina capital, the Raleigh police chief confirmed, saying the teenager was hospitalized in critical condition.
Police have yet to determine the motive for the shooting, which turned a quiet, middle-class neighborhood into a 2.2-mile-wide crime scene on Thursday, Chief of Police Estella Patterson said at a press conference on Thursday. Friday.
Patterson did not identify the suspect by name or say how he was injured.
Shootings began at 5 pm (local time) on the streets of Raleigh’s Hedingham neighborhood, where residents were told to stay in their homes for hours while police carried out a massive manhunt.
The suspect was later found near the Neuse River Greenway, a walking and cycling trial where he shot more people, Patterson said. After a standoff, the police arrested him at a residence close to the trail.
Officials said the shootings had shaken residents across the state capital, a city of about 500,000 known as a high-tech research center.
“No one should feel that fear in communities — no one,” Democratic Governor Roy Cooper said during the briefing, calling the incident an “infuriating and tragic act of gun violence.”
Three women — ages 52, 49 and 35 — and a 16-year-old boy are among those killed in the shooting, Patterson said. A 29-year-old police officer who died in the shooting has been identified as Gabriel Torres, who was on his way to work when the incident unfolded.
Two people were injured: a police officer who was treated and released and a 59-year-old woman who was hospitalized in critical condition, Patterson said.
The delegate did not give details about the shooting itself and could not say if the suspect is related to the victims.
As of Friday morning, streets in the neighborhood where the shootings took place were still blocked off with yellow police tape and patrol cars remained parked outside several houses, local media footage showed.
Patterson said his department would produce a report on the incident within the next five days.
Source: CNN Brasil
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