![]() Omer Rosas, a sophomore at Knightdale High School, said he was shocked to learn that his classmate was arrested in connection with the shooting. Law enforcement officers congregate outside an armored vehicle at the Aldi on New Bern Avenue in Raleigh. Karnatz’s husband, Tom Karnatz, said she was an avid runner who often ran on the greenway. A second police officer, Casey Joseph Clark, 33, was also wounded and released from the hospital. Gardner remained hospitalised in critical condition today. Marcille Lynn Gardner, 59, was talking to Connors when she was shot. Law enforcement officers work a crime scene in the Hedingham neighborhood (Source: Associated Press) Marshall's sister told NBC News that she was out walking her dog, Scruff. Connors' husband told The Associated Press she was on the porch and talking to a neighbour when she was killed. The other victims were Nicole Connors, 52 Mary Marshall, 34 Susan Karnatz, 49 and James Roger Thompson, 16. He was off-duty and on his way to work when the shooting began. Police say officer Gabriel Torres, 29, was among the five killed. The stretch behind the neighbourhood is paved and lies down a grassy slope from the houses. The trail runs about 43 kilometres along the river and connects to the state’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail that’s popular with thru-hikers. The Neuse River Greenway, a walking and biking trail, runs just behind houses in the neighbourhood. The Hedingham neighbourhood, where the shooting began, is a residential area of single-family and townhomes, as well as a golf club. The teen, who was not immediately identified by police, eluded officers for hours - setting off a manhunt across a crime scene that stretched for 3 kilometres - before he was cornered in a home and arrested, Patterson said. Police said from there, the teenager fled to a nearby walking trail, and continued shooting. The gunfire broke out yesterday afternoon in a residential area northeast of downtown, Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin said. He added: “No neighbourhood, no parent, no child, no grandparent, no one should feel this fear in their communities - no one.” Governor Roy Cooper called the shooting an “infuriating and tragic act of gun violence”. Family members and friends said some of the victims were gunned down while doing normal, everyday activities - an off-duty police officer was killed while on his way to work, one of the women who died was on her porch talking to a neighbour, another woman who died was out walking her dog and another was out exercising. The victims were of different races and ranged in age from 16 to their late 50s, Patterson said. Patterson said today that police haven't determined a motive for the attack. He was hospitalised and in critical condition following his arrest, but authorities have not said how he was injured. Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson said the teen was captured hours after the victims were gunned down yesterday. Police remain on the scene at Castle Pines Dr. A 15-year-old boy killed five people and injured two more in a shooting rampage in Raleigh North Carolina, police said, horrifying a community that is now mourning victims whose lives were cut short as they were going about their daily routines. ![]()
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