A woman charged with shooting two lawyers outside a Wake County courthouse last week was shouting before she left the courtroom where her case against the Rolesville Police Department was being heard.
“I’m going after you,” a woman is heard shouting in a courtroom recording. “I’m going completely after you, all the way up to the top. I promise you that. And I’m going to get her. See ya!”
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Gwendolyn White, who was charged with attempted murder, appeared to be disgruntled after her attorney withdrew from the case. It's not clear who White directed the threat towards.
White could also be heard calling for the judge to recuse herself, claiming she was “in cahoots with the KKK.”
White was arrested Friday afternoon in downtown Raleigh after a shooting that injured two people -- attorneys Mary Harris and Jefferey Whitley, of Fox Rothschild. The pair were representing Rolesville in the case, and they were shot as they left the building.
Raleigh Chief of Police Rico Boyce said in the hours after the shooting that White had "become belligerent" during the hearing.
WRAL News also learned that Raleigh police had White on their radar after an incident in August 2025. That was when White called in a threat to Duke Raleigh Hospital, according to police. They filed a patrol advisory, which alerts officers about potential hazards. It does not appear that White was ever cited for that incident.
White faces two charges of attempted murder and is being held without bond.
WRAL News, which hasn't independently confirmed the N&O report, has requested audio and video from a hearing White was involved in on Friday. She was expected to be assigned a public defender. As of Wednesday afternoon, court records didn't which public defender had been assigned to her case. The county's chief public defender has declined to comment on the case.
Raleigh police documents allege that before the shooting outside the courthouse, White made a phone call to a medical facility "with threats to carry out a shooting," and that she "is believed to be experiencing a severe mental crisis and has an extensive mental health history."
WRAL Investigates found that White had filed 16 civil cases in 17 years, so many that a Wake County judge in 2023 ordered her not to file any more without support of an attorney, something called a "gatekeeper order."
“By the time I met her,” Seth Blum, a former attorney for White said, "the court system was getting sick of her coming in and demanding action.”
Blum, who represented White in cases against her neighbors, told WRAL News he could tell that she had significant mental health challenges. "I felt awful for Miss White, who I knew had not been getting the treatment that she needed," he said.