Police investigate fatal shooting, crash in Raleigh neighborhood

Friday night, Raleigh police said that the driver of the vehicle was shot before crashing.
Posted 8/13/2022, 3:53:28 AM Updated 8/14/2022, 12:58:05 PM

COVERING THIS LIVE DURING OUR

MORNING NEWS. LOOK FOR UPDATES

STARTING AT 06:00AM.

>> AND WE'RE FOLLOWING BREAKING

NEWS IN RALEIGH TONIGHT.

WE LEARNED THE DRIVER WHO

CRASHED INTO THE FRONT YARD OF

THIS HOME WAS SHOT BEFORE THE

CRASH. THE DRIVER IS DEAD AND

POLICE ARE STILL AT THE SCENE

OFF TO SIMULATE MORE THAN 5

HOURS AFTER THE CRASH. WR SO

SEEING WAS THERE AND SHE JOINS

US LIVE. LESLIE, YOU HEARD A

LOUD BOOM IN LAST HOUR AND A

HALF. TELL US WHAT YOU SAW.

>> YEAH, WE'RE NOT SURE WHAT

EXACTLY THAT LOUD NOISE WAS,

BUT IT SOUNDED LIKE IT CAME

FROM THIS NEIGHBORHOOD HERE.

WE WERE ACTUALLY ABLE TO GET A

LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO THE SCENE.

THE HOME IS JUST DOWN THE ROAD

HERE. THIS ALL HAPPENED AT

AROUND 5.30. CREWS HAVE BEEN

ON SCENE HERE SINCE SEVERAL

RESIDENTS WE SPOKE WITH TONIGHT

TELL US THEY HEARD THE

INCIDENT, BUT THEY NEVER

IMAGINED ANYTHING LIKE THIS.

>> A SCENE THAT LEFT A RALEIGH

NEIGHBORHOOD IN SHOCK. AND THIS

IS WHAT HAPPENED HERE. YOU CAN

SEE THE CAR.

>> WOW, I SAID I DID NOT GET

THAT FAR. THAT OFFICIALS SAY A

MAN WAS SHOT JUST BEFORE

CRASHING INTO A PARKED CAR IN

THE STRIVE. WE ON THE 500 BLOCK

OF KISSIMMEE LANE. SKY 5 FLYING

OVER THE SCENE SHOWS A VEHICLE

PARTIALLY ON THE LAWN AND

DRIVEWAY.

>> MOST OF THE AREA COVERED

WITH DEBRIS AS CREWS CLOSED OFF

SURROUNDING ROADS. SEVERAL

HOMES IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD LOST

POWER SHORTLY AFTER INCLUDING

RUSSELL CHAPIN WHO HEARD WHAT

SOUNDED LIKE A LOUD BOOM WHEN

THE WHEN THE POWER WENT OUT.

I THOUGHT MAYBE SOMEONE HAD

>> AND OR OUR DOES SOMETHING

LIKE THAT. AND, YOU KNOW, AND

ALEXA, GOOD THEMSELVES OR

SOMETHING. OKAY. SO WE HEARD NO

GUNSHOTS. NOTHING LIKE THAT.

AT LEAST A DOZEN PEOPLE HEARD

THE SAME THING LIKE TO KNOW.

BUT NOW IT'S NOT CONCERNED.

WE LIVE IN A VERY SAFE

NEIGHBORHOOD. EVERYBODY KNOWS

EVERYONE. OKAY. AND

>> IT'S UNFORTUNATE THAT THAT

HAPPENED HERE.

>> AND POWER HAS BEEN RESTORED

FOR MOST OF THE RESIDENTS STILL

QUITE AN ACTIVE SCENE OUT HERE.

I LIKE I SAID SINCE 5.30, THIS

EVENING RIGHT NOW, PEOPLE HAVE

QUESTIONS AS TO WHAT EXACTLY

HAPPENED EARLIER THIS EVENING.

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