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Raleigh, North Carolina police announced Friday morning that the five victims killed in a fatal shooting by a 15-year-old suspect included an off-duty officer who went to work and a 16-year-old boy.
Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson identified the victims who died in Thursday night's shooting as Officer Gabriel Torres, 29, Nicole Conners, 52, Mary Marshall, 35, Susan Karnatz, 49 and James Thompson, 16.
K-9 officer Casey Clark was injured in the incident, but has since received treatment and been discharged from hospital.
Raleigh, NC: White male teen kills 5 with a firearm—including an off duty cop—& cops arrested him alive. My condolences to the victims' families.
Amazing how white mass murderers are arrested alive so easily but Black unarmed kids are killed so quickly.😓https://t.co/BRejlcKgXQ
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) October 14, 2022
Another surviving victim, identified as Marcille Gardner, 59, remained in critical condition.
Patterson said Torres was off duty but was on his way to work Thursday when he encountered the shooter.
Patterson did not name the 15-year-old suspect but said he was in critical condition in hospital. The boss did not comment on a possible motive or future allegations.
The incident began around 5 p.m. when the shooter opened fire on the 6000 block of Osprey Cove Drive before hitting the Neuse River Greenway in a residential area northeast of downtown.
Police cordoned off the area and searched for the killer for hours before cornering him in a house near Old Milburnie Road at around 9.37pm. and put in custody.
It is currently unclear how the 15-year-old suffered injuries which required him to be hospitalized.
"We are with you in this time of indescribable anguish," Gov. Roy Cooper said at a news conference on Friday. “No one should feel this fear in their community. Nobody. As politicians, we cannot and do not want to turn our backs on what happened here.
Thursday's rampage became the 25th massacre in 2022 in which victims were shot.
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