Police said the suspect accused of fatally shooting 5 in Raleigh, North Carolina is a 15-year-old boy.
Five people were killed by a shooter who opened fire along a walking trail in North Carolina's capital city on Thursday and eluded officers for hours before he was cornered in a home and arrested, police said.
The gunfire broke out around 5 p.m. along the Neuse River Greenway in a residential area northeast of downtown, Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin said. Officers from numerous law enforcement agencies swarmed the area, closing roads and warning residents to stay inside while they searched for the shooter.
Authorities didn't offer any details on a motive, but Baldwin joined Cooper in decrying the violence. Brooke Medina, who lives in the neighborhood bordering the greenway, was driving home at around 5:15 p.m. when she saw about two dozen police cars, both marked and unmarked, race toward the residential area about 9 miles from Raleigh's downtown. She then saw ambulances speeding the other direction, toward the closest hospital.She and her husband, who was working from home with their four children, started reaching out to neighbors and realized there was a shelter-in-place order.
She described the neighborhood known as Hedingham as a sprawling, dense, tree-lined community that's full of single-family homes, duplexes and townhomes that are more moderately priced compared to other parts of the Raleigh area.
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