The mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina urged people to 'wake up' after a shooting left five dead and two injured.
Police arrested a juvenile suspect after an hourslong shooting in Raleigh, North Carolina that left five dead and two injured.Five people are dead, including a police officer, after an hourslong shooting Thursday that unfolded in a residential neighborhood of Raleigh, North Carolina, officials said.
Among the dead is an unidentified off-duty Raleigh Police Department officer, Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin said at a news conference late Thursday. Over an hour after police said they had contained the suspect in a residence in the area, Raleigh Police Department tweeted they had the suspect in custody. Another Raleigh officer was one of the two people injured in the incident, Baldwin said. That officer, a K9 officer, did not have life-threatening injuries and was released from the hospital Thursday night. The other person injured was in critical condition, Lt. Jason Borneo said."All of us in Raleigh right now need to come together," Baldwin said."We need to support those in our community who have suffered a terrible loss, a loss of a loved one.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper said multiple law enforcement agencies were responding to the incident. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms in Charlotte said special agents were also responding.
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