The 15-year-old suspect in yesterday’s shooting in Raleigh (North Carolina, USA), which killed five people, is in “serious condition,” local police said Friday.
Five people died, including a police officer who was off duty, in a new shooting in the United States, this time in North Carolina, local media reported Thursday.
The local channel WRAL News reported that several police patrols and an ambulance went to the scene at around 5:30 p.m. local time and a nearby hospital confirmed that it had received several injured people.
#13Oct | Several people have died this Thursday during a shooting in the city of Raleigh, North Carolina (USA), according to unconfirmed reports officially. Police continue to search for the attacker, local media report. (RT)
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The main suspect, who has already been arrested by the Police, is a man dressed in camouflage clothing and carrying a double-barreled shotgun.
The Police took approximately three hours from when they received the alert and until they managed to arrest the suspect.
North Carolina shooting
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, said on Twitter that he had spoken with Raleigh Mayor Mary Ann Baldwin. This, in addition to having ordered the State Security Forces to help with the investigation.
Baldwin, who lamented “a sad and tragic day,” said that among the injured, whose number is unknown at the moment, is a police officer from the canine unit who is out of danger of death.
“I saw him pass in front of my house, in the garden. He had a long-barreled hunting rifle and was dressed in camouflage,” he told the cadena local WRAL a witness who did not want to give his last name and identified himself as Robert.
rampant violence
The visibly upset mayor said, “We must do more,” referring to the shootings that regularly happen in the United States. The spread of firearms and ease of access are the subject of constant national debate.
“We must end this rampant violence in America. We must respond to gun violence. Our task is immense. And tonight our mourning is immense, ”he lamented.
Some 49,000 people were killed with firearms in 2021 in the country, once morest 45,000 in 2020, which was already a record. The equivalent of 130 daily deaths, half suicides.