The gunman who killed five people at a crosswalk in the North Carolina capital is a 15-year-old boy who was hospitalized in critical condition, local police said Friday.
Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson told reporters the suspect opened fire Thursday in an area northeast of downtown Raleigh. The young man was on the run for hours before being cornered in a house and detained, according to police, who did not give details of how he ended up critically injured.
Another 16-year-old and an off-duty police officer are among the dead.
Authorities have not yet provided details on the motive for the crimes.
The shooting took place Thursday around 5:00 p.m. local time (10:00 p.m. in mainland Portugal) along the Neuse River Greenway, a paved lane in a wooded part of an area, Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann said. Baldwin.
The shooting in Raleigh was the latest in a violent week across the country.
Five people were killed Sunday in a shooting at a home in Inman, South Carolina. On Wednesday night, two police officers were shot and killed in Connecticut after they were apparently lured into an ambush following a phone call related to domestic violence.
Other officers were shot this week in Greenville, Mississippi, Decatur, Illinois, Philadelphia, Las Vegas and central Florida. Two of those agents, one in Greenville and one in Las Vegas, ultimately died.
Thursday’s violence was the 25th mass firearm murder of 2022, according to the Associated Press (AP), USA TODAY and the Northeastern University database.
Some 49,000 people were shot to death in 2021, up from 45,000 in 2020, in the United States, representing more than 130 deaths daily, of which more than half were suicides.
Source: TSF
