School lockdown: Shooting at North Hills puts area schools on alert

At least one person was killed and roads closed down Friday after a shooting at the North Hills shopping center in Raleigh.
Posted 1/17/2025, 4:45:00 PM Updated 1/17/2025, 6:59:33 PM

OUT THERE AS PART OF OUR

BREAKING NEWS TEAM. GETTING

MORE INFORMATION AND EVEN

HEARING FROM OTHER PEOPLE WHO

WERE NEARBY WHEN THIS ALL

HAPPENED. MONICA.

>> AND CHRIS, WE'RE OUTSIDE

CARROLL MIDDLE SCHOOL RIGHT

NOW. I WANT TO SHOW YOU OVER

HERE BEHIND ME. YOU CAN SEE A

LINE OF CARS UP ABOVE THIS

PARKING LOT. THOSE LOOK TO BE

PARENTS HERE TO PICK UP THEIR

STUDENTS. WE'VE SEEN THAT LINE

KIND OF INCHING FORWARD OVER

THE 15, 20 MINUTES THAT WE HAVE

BEEN OVER HERE WITH PETE WITH

PARENTS PICKING UP THEIR

STUDENTS EARLY. WE HAVE SEEN

STUDENTS COMING OUT OF THE

FRONT OF THIS SCHOOL AS WELL.

YOU CAN SEE SOME RIGHT THERE

WALKING DOWN THE STEPS. THAT'S

KIND OF BEEN THIS SCENE HERE AT

THIS MIDDLE SCHOOL. WE KNOW

THEY WERE ON CODE RED LOCKDOWN

EARLIER WHEN EVERYTHING WAS

VERY ACTIVE. IT IS NOW CODE

GREEN OVER HERE. THOSE

LOCKDOWNS, OUR STANDARD WHEN

THERE IS SOME KIND OF POLICE

INVESTIGATION NEARBY, WE COVER

THEM A LOT. OBVIOUSLY, THIS

SITUATION VERY SCARY FOR THE

PEOPLE WHO WERE HERE. WE'VE

SEEN PARENTS COMING OUT OF THIS

DRIVEWAY WITH MULTIPLE KIDS IN

THE BACKSEAT, TAKING THEM HOME.

I WANT TO POINT OUT THIS

INTERSECTION UP HERE, 6 FORKS

ROAD. OBVIOUSLY, THAT'S A ROAD

WE'VE BEEN HEARING A LOT ABOUT.

AND YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE

POLICE UP THERE STILL DIRECTING

PEOPLE THAT STOP LIGHT IS

EITHER TURNED OFF OR OUT RIGHT

NOW. YOU CAN SEE IT IS BLINKING

RED AND THEY'VE BEEN DIRECTING

PEOPLE THE ENTIRE TIME. WE HAVE

BEEN HERE. THAT'S WHY ONE

REASON YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A

LOT OF BACK UP ON SOME OF THESE

SIDE ROADS, IT'S SOMETHING WE

SHOWED YOU EARLIER AROUND 12.

45 JUST KIND OF WALL TO WALL

TRAFFIC ON THESE BACK

NEIGHBORHOOD ROADS AS PEOPLE

LOOK TO GET AROUND THIS AREA.

WE KNOW WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENS

NOW OVER AT NORTH HILLS, BUT

IT IS STILL KIND OF ACTION WITH

A LOT OF POLICE HERE. A LOT OF

TRAFFIC, A LOT OF PEOPLE JUST

TRYING TO GET AROUND TRYING TO

GO ABOUT THEIR DAY. SO AGAIN,

A LOT OF PARENTS PICKING PEOPLE

UP. THERE ARE WAKE COUNTY

SHERIFF'S OFFICE VEHICLES HERE.

IT'S POSSIBLE THOSE ARE SRO'S

WHO ARE USUALLY HEAR. IT'S

POSSIBLE THEY'RE HERE BECAUSE

OF THE SITUATION AT NORTH

HILLS. BUT THIS SCHOOL IS COLD

GREEN. WE ARE SEEING PARENTS

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