Raleigh, NC police search home related to mass shooting, press conference being held Friday morning - WTVD-TV

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RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Raleigh constabulary are expected to supply an update connected the wide shooting that killed 5 radical and injured 3 others successful the eastbound portion of the city.

On Friday morning, officers were spotted searching a location adjacent wherever the shooting took place.

One of those radical killed Thursday day was an off-duty constabulary officer. The 4 others killed were civilians.

Three others were hospitalized, including a Raleigh K9 officer. A civilian unfortunate is successful captious information arsenic of precocious Thursday night. A K9 was besides injured.

The suspected gunman, who is simply a juvenile male, was yet taken into custody astatine Old Milburnie Drive and McConnell Oliver Drive conscionable aft 9:30 p.m.

What happened?

Officers archetypal responded astir 5:13 p.m.to an progressive shooting telephone adjacent the Neuse River Greenway successful the Hedingham vicinity adjacent Osprey Cove Drive and Bay Harbor Drive.

Police reportedly cornered the fishy successful a barn disconnected Buffaloe Road, a instrumentality enforcement root told ABC11.

Police would lone accidental that the fishy was "contained" earlier tweeting Thursday nighttime that the fishy was successful custody.

Reaction to shooting

Many radical are inactive conscionable trying to process what each unfolded successful that neighborhood.

ABC11 spoke with 1 neighbour who can't judge what happened.

"Right present I'm conscionable confused, you know? Quiet neighborhood. I ain't seen truthful overmuch unit similar this successful a minute, man. Just shocking, man, you know?" Lavarius Thompson said.

Mayor Baldwin and Governor Roy Cooper addressed the metropolis past nighttime successful 2 quality conferences.

"Tonight panic has reached our doorstep. The nightmare of each assemblage has travel to Raleigh. This is simply a senseless, horrific, and infuriating enactment of unit that has been committed," Gov. Cooper said.

Law enforcement response

It took a large effort from aggregate agencies to apprehension the suspect.

Several agencies, on with the Raleigh Police Department responded and were connected the crushed engaging successful the manhunt until the fishy was successful custody.

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