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North Carolina shooting: 15 year old boy arrested after five killed in ‘infuriating and tragic act of gun violence’

The suspect eluded police officers for several hours before being arrested in a house.

According to US officials, a 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of killing five people in North Carolina and is in critical condition in a hospital.

The unidentified teenager is accused of fatally shooting two individuals in the state capital of Raleigh before opening fire on a walking route, killing three more people and injuring two others.

Among those killed in the Thursday night attack were a 16-year-old boy named James Roger Thompson, and a 29-year-old off-duty police officer called Gabriel Torres.

The other victims killed in the shooting were 52-year-old Nicole Connors, 34-year-old Mary Marshall, and 49-year-old Susan Karnatz.

Marcille Lynn Gardner, 59, was wounded in the attack and remains in critical condition in the hospital, while a second police officer, Casey Joseph Clark, was also injured but has been released.

Raleigh police chief Estella Patterson said those killed were a racially diverse group, and authorities have not yet determined a motive for the shooting.

The incident set off a massive police response across the city, with officers searching for the suspect for several hours before cornering him inside a house and arresting him.

Officers from numerous law enforcement agencies swarmed the Hedingham neighbourhood, a residential area northeast of Raleigh city centre, closing roads and warning residents to stay inside while they searched for the shooter.

Residents talk with a police officer in front of the house where the suspected shooter lived on Sahalee Way following a shooting in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. Several people were shot and killed by a gunman in the neighborhood Thursday night, Oct. 13. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)
Image:Residents talk with a police officer in front of the house where the suspected shooter lived
Law enforcement officers work a crime scene in the Hedingham neighborhood and Neuse River Trail area in Raleigh, N.C., on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. Police say a 15-year-old boy fatally shot at least two people in the streets of a neighborhood in North Carolina...s capital city, then fled toward a walking trail, where he opened fire, killing and wounding others.(AP Photo/Allen Breed)
Image:Law enforcement officers work a crime scene in the Hedingham neighbourhood
‘No one should feel this fear’ Governor Roy Cooper called the attack an “infuriating and tragic act of gun violence”.”Today we’re sad, we’re angry and we want to know the answers to all the questions,” he said.

“I think we all know the core truth – no neighbour, no parent, no child, no grandparent, no one should feel this fear in these communities – no one.”

In a statement, President Joe Biden said he and first lady Jill Biden are grieving with victims’ families, and his administration is working with Mr Cooper to help local authorities with their investigation.

“Enough. We’ve grieved and prayed with too many families who have had to bear the terrible burden of these mass shootings,” he said.

An ambulance believed to be carrying a shooting suspect arrives at Wake Medical Center Emergeny Room in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022 surrounded by police. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker)
Image:The teenage suspect was taken to hospital
Police gather at the Aldi on New Bern Avenue in Raleigh, N.C. Thursday evening, Oct. 13, 2022. Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin told reporters that multiple people were shot on the Neuse River Greenway around 5 p.m., and that the police department told her around 8 p.m. that the suspect had been ...contained... at a residence in the area. (Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP)
Image:A huge police response ensued after the shooting

The incident in Raleigh is just the latest in a violent week across America, with another five people killed in a shooting in South Carolina on Sunday.

On Wednesday night, two police officers were fatally shot in Connecticut after apparently being drawn into an ambush by an emergency call about possible domestic violence.

Police officers have been shot this week in Greenville, Mississippi; Decatur, Illinois; Philadelphia, Las Vegas, and central Florida.

Two of those officers, one in Greenville and one in Las Vegas, were killed.

Thursday’s violence was the 25th mass killing in 2022 in which the victims were fatally shot, according to the Northeastern University Mass Killings database.

A mass killing is defined as when four or more people are killed, excluding the perpetrator.

 

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