Raleigh police chief: Three men shot at Coquette restaurant at North Hills

I am here to provide an update on what has

occurred here at the 4300 block of Circle at North

Hills Street

Certainly as the lieutenant stated this is a troubling event

Anytime we have any kind of shootings or incidents like

this our hearts go out to the victims and those

that are involved

This is the information that we have right now

The scene is contained and there is no threat to

the community

This is not a random incident

The male what we know is that a male subject

entered into a business here at North Hills and he

shot another individual

That person is deceased

We can confirm that at this time

The suspect then in return turned the weapon on himself

and he fired a shot

He remains in critical condition at this time

There was another person who we believe to be somebody

that was just standing by that was struck and that

individual has non life threatening injuries and we are prayerful

that he will be OK

This appears to be a dispute between parties

We do not know at this time whether they know

each other

We believe that possibly but we do not know that

for a fact

We have conducted a full search of the area of

area businesses to ensure that they are safe

There are no other victims or suspects that we believe

we are looking for at this time

With me today are all of our partners that have

been instrumental in helping us to get our community safe

and making sure that our community is safe

I certainly always want to make sure that we thank

them

I thank the Raleigh Police Department for being here with

us and providing resources also to the State Highway Patrol

Wake County Sheriff's Office State Capitol police emergency management Wake

EMS and also Kane Security

I also want to thank Wake County schools

We know that some of the schools were concerned

They were in lockdown but they are all now on

green code green

I would like to tell the public that they can

expect that the roads in this area are going to

be shut down for a little while longer

Please bear with us with that as we continue the

investigation

As we get additional information as we always do because

we want to make sure we're good partners we will

update you and give you that information

That is what we have at this time

I'll take a few questions

Yes it did occur at the business right at the

corner here at the Coquette business and we have been

in contact with those business owners

They have been very cooperative with us in the investigation

and we are thankful for that

I'm sorry one more time

I don't have that information at this time

Chief were all of the shots fired inside this business

or were there shots that were fired outside of the

business as well From what we can ascertain at this

time the shots were fired inside the building

And then how far did the suspect get from the

scene of the shooting we're still working through that

OK and we see that this scene is extremely large

Can you tell folks why So much crime tape whenever

everything was contained in that one

Yeah absolutely

Anytime you have any kind of shooting incident we're going

to make sure that our crime scene and our perimeter

is wide

That is just our protocol and doing business like that

We are in the process now that we have been

able to isolate some things to reduce the crime scene

So I don't have that information with me just at

this moment we were trying to get the facts of

the case and trying to put out something to you

OK

All right

Yeah

Yeah

So as I've stated that this was not a random

incident

This is not something that happens on a daily basis

in North Hills and we're very thankful for that

This is a very safe community and we want to

assure the public that everything is contained as far as

we can do at this point

Certainly we're going to continue to investigate this

If anything further comes up we will make sure that

we pass that information on on all our social media

platforms as well as our city of Raleigh website so

that you are informed and you are updated on the

information

Are all of the um are

suspect and victims all employees so we don't know that

yet

Yeah um we don't know that yet

OK that's fair

Thank you

Fingers crossed right

about

Jason

Can I at least get suspect was employee I actually

I'm not even 100% sure

I I mean I think I think but we'll we'll

push that out

We we don't typically employment status but it's domestic and

they were all related to that restaurant that they perform

I'll say that that that's great

Thanks Jason

They're

You could say you're ready though