At least 5 killed in shooting in Raleigh, North Carolina; suspect in custody

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: CBS

Five people, including an off-duty police officer, were killed, and two more wounded, in a shooting Thursday evening in a residential neighborhood in Raleigh, North Carolina. A suspect, described as a White male juvenile, has been taken into custody.
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The second wounded victim was hospitalized in critical condition, Borneo said.

The shooting was reported just after 5 p.m. local time along the Neuse River Greenway trail in the east Raleigh neighborhood of Hedingham, Baldwin said.

The suspect was taken into custody at 9:37 p.m., Borneo said, adding that "there is no active, ongoing threat." The suspect had earlier in the night been "contained in a residence in the area" by both local and federal law enforcement, Baldwin said.



Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shooting-raleigh-north-carolina-hedingham-several-killed-juvenile-suspect-in-custody/

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Very little detail on the suspect - perhaps they're saying less because he's a juvenile.

Neighbors said the shooter was young, dressed in camo and had a long rifle.

Authorities said that he opened fire along a walking trail.

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/officers-raleigh-respond-active-shooter-scene-police-say/UNQLZM4MPNCMPJINSJFE77RXJQ/

[raccoon]

1. I wish he was an adult so he could be tried as an adult.

Something else I wish about this killer, but I won’t say it.

[Ford_Prefect]

21. Depending on his actual age and the severity of the charge he may be tried that way.

[cstanleytech]

2. We clearly need more people to carry guns so they can stop these killings.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Young white males are doing the mass shootings. Why aren't laws passed to control them?

Why are women the ones who have to be subjugated and punished?

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Hormones and firearms

Lethal combo, if testosterone.

Has anyone on the right pondered how many abortions the killing of 5 adults is equivalent to? For example, does a 20 year old mean 20 years at 12 months per year divided by 9 months?

[Irish_Dem]

11. But women are called the "emotional" ones.

Women who are PMSing don't go buy a gun and start killing people.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. I can never tell if that's a rabbit hole or not

For all the push to equality, there seem to remain biological differences, and how they impact personality, demeanor, behavior.

There, I'm out there. Hopefully won't be removed, but that's how I see it.

[Irish_Dem]

13. But biological differences should have no impact on social/political equality.

[Scrivener7]

9. The question of the ages.

[hlthe2b]

4. "Opened fire along a walking trail"

--the only thing left for me to feel relatively at peace--considering I do look around in grocery stores and malls (the rare times I go to the latter), in post offices, and crowded indoor venues... but I still "zoned out" with my beloved pup on walking trails each morning.

RIP, all

[IronLionZion]

6. The morning walk folks tend to find dead bodies

I think the evening walk folks are more susceptible to being shot.

[IronLionZion]

5. Imagine going for your evening walk and being randomly shot dead by a POS

Gov. Roy Cooper went to the media staging area and addressed the public at a late-night news conference.

“Terror has reached our doorstep,” Cooper said. “The nightmare of every community has come to Raleigh.”

[Botany]

7. Suspect, described as a White male juvenile aka incel

n/t

[Scrivener7]

10. Inevitably.

[BlueSky3]

18. Yes,

the names of the victims were mostly women.

[onenote]

25. Three women and two men died. One other woman and one other man were wounded.

They ranged in age from 16 to 59, were white, Black, Latino.

It doesn't sound like the shooter was targeting a particular type of victim (other than, it would appear, his brother).

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. At 15, no, not an incel

By law, he ought to be "celibate" at that age. And even if you take it to mean "would like a girlfriend, hasn't got one", that's not unusual for 15 year olds.

[SoCalDavidS]

14. 15 Years Old. nt

[flying_wahini]

16. Sounds more like an attempted suicide by cop. IMO,

I think Uvalde started out that way but when the cops didn’t bust in to kill him he decided to
Just go for it.

[GreenWave]

17. Tens of thousands of years ago, humans rarely made it to age 20 or so

on the average.

Death penalty! You get one vote here because he sought to murder innocent people.

[jmowreader]

29. He's also 15

You must be 18 at the time of the crime to be sentenced to either death or life without parole. This doesn’t mean they can’t deny parole until he dies of natural causes, but those are the two sentences he can’t have.

[mnhtnbb]

19. One of our DU'ers used to live near this trail and walked it regularly with his wife.

They moved from Raleigh to the NC mountains in 2020, right before COVID hit.

I lived in downtown Raleigh for several years before buying a house being built in a new development in southwest Durham. One of the big selling points to me--by the developer--was that there would be a connection to the American Tobacco Trail at the end of the cul de sac near my house. Two and a half years later and the developer has still not connected us to the trail, and apparently--I learned last night in a Zoom HOA meeting--they won't until they finish putting in the sewer line (which will run under our connection to the trail) for the second phase of the development for which they have only just started clearing the land.

Now I'm not so sure I want to walk the trail.

What the hell is wrong with people in this country that we can't limit the access to guns?

[mnhtnbb]

20. The suspect is in critical condition, according to the article, this morning.

No description of whether that is from self induced wound or a shoot out with police.

A suspect, described as a 15-year-old White male, has been taken into custody and was in critical condition Friday morning, the city's police chief said.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shooting-raleigh-north-carolina-hedingham-several-killed-juvenile-suspect-in-custody/

[maxsolomon]

22. Either way, prob best if he succumbs to his wounds.

Unfortunately, modern western medicine is pretty good at fixing stuff.

[brooklynite]

24. In which case, the motive for the shooting may not be known.

[maxsolomon]

28. I no longer believe that matters

Homicidal, adolescent male rage can have any cause; firearm access is the key.

[maxsolomon]

23. Another Rampage Shooting in anywhere USA.

Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground.

It's never going to stop.

[Stuart G]

26. The founding fathers didn't imagine this could happen. For whatever reason, ....

if they could have imagined that there would be so many innocent people killed by this gun "S**t, there would
have been no 2nd Amendment.

2nd Amendment about no standing army to protect in case of war. Now, these characters who wrote this Constitution were very smart. Among the very best & most intelligent possible. While they were correct on most of it,
2 mistakes: Guns, & Slavery

....I guess there were more, but time to hide again

[jmowreader]

30. 3 mistakes

Only Congress can remove one of its members.

[Stuart G]

31. Thank You for adding that.

[mnhtnbb]

27. The 15 yo suspect is the brother of the 16 yo who was among the five killed, according to sources.

James Thompson, 16, a junior at Knightdale High, was one of five people killed during a mass shooting in the Hedingham neighborhood of Raleigh Thursday night.

Sources have confirmed to The News & Observer that the suspect in the mass shooting is James Thompson’s 15-year-old brother, Austin Thompson, a sophomore at Knightdale High School.

Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article267319252.html#storylink=cpy