Police provide details after cars shot at along I-40 in Wake County

COVERAGE. YOU CAN COUNT ON.

>> BREAKING RIGHT NOW AT 6

RALEIGH, POLICE ARE TRYING TO

FIGURE OUT WHO SHOT AT MULTIPLE

CARS ON I-40 TODAY AND ANOTHER

TIME EARLIER THIS WEEK. THANK

YOU FOR JOINING US. I'M GERALD

OWENS AND I'M DEBRA MORGAN, THE

SHOOTINGS THIS MORNING HAPPENED

DURING THE BUSY MORNING RUSH

HOUR NEAR THE HEAVILY TRAVELED

AREA BETWEEN CHAPEL HILL ROAD

AND GORMAN STREET. A WOMAN WAS

SHOT IN THE SAME AREA JUST 2

DAYS AGO. WSL SEE DONOVAN IS

LIVE TONIGHT IN THE WAKE COUNTY

EMERGENCY OPERATION CENTER.

CHELSEA ONE ELSE IS LAW

ENFORCEMENT TELLING YOU ABOUT

THESE INCIDENTS?

GERALD AND DEBORAH, WE NOW KNOW

THAT THERE WERE AT LEAST 6 CARS

THAT WERE HIT BY GUNFIRE.

ONE WOMAN WAS STRUCK IN THE

LEG IN OUR PD TELLS ME THAT

MANY OF THESE VEHICLES HAD

MULTIPLE PEOPLE INSIDE WHEN

THEY WERE TRAVELING. BULLS

WESTBOUND.

>> AND EASTBOUND ON I-40

RALEIGH POLICE DO BELIEVE ALL

OF THESE INCIDENTS ARE

CONNECTED. NOW THESE RANDOM

SHOOTING STARTED ON MONDAY,

AS YOU MENTIONED, WHERE ONE

WOMAN WAS HIT BY GUNFIRE IN THE

LEG TRAVELING WESTBOUND ON 40

NEAR CHAPEL HILL ROAD AFTER

THAT SHOOTING. ANOTHER DRIVER

CAME FORWARD AND TOLD POLICE

THEIR CAR WAS HIT BY A BULLET

NOW FAST FORWARD TO TODAY, FOR

INSTANCES HAPPENED. IT HAPPENED

RATHER ON I-40 THANKFULLY NO

INJURIES WITH THESE ONE NEAR

BUCK JONES ROAD AND ANOTHER

NEAR GORMAN STREET. AND THEN TO

OTHER PEOPLE THEN CAME FORWARD

TO POLICE. ALL OF THIS,

ACCORDING TO RALEIGH, POLICE IS

HAPPENING DURING THE EARLY

MORNING RUSH HOUR COMMUTE

BETWEEN 5 AND 07:00AM. AND AS

I MENTIONED, THESE CARS THAT

ARE BEING HIT ARE TRAVELING

BOTH EASTBOUND AND WESTBOUND.

RPD SAYS IT IS A HANDGUN THAT

IS BEING USED AND THEY'RE

PLEADING RIGHT NOW FOR THE

PUBLIC TO HELP.

>> YOU HAVE DASH CAM OPERATING

WHILE TRAVELING ON A STRETCH

OF ROAD. PLEASE CONTACT US.

YOU MAY HAVE INFORMATION THAT

CAN LEAD TO THE IDENTIFICATION

OF THE PERSON OR PERSONS

RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS.

>> NOW THEY HAVE SET NO

SUSPECTS IN CUSTODY. NO

DESCRIPTIONS OF SUSPECTS.

ALSO RIGHT NOW, THEY SAY THAT

THERE'S GOING TO BE A HEAVY,

LARGE INCREASE IN PATROLS IN

THAT AREA, BOTH NOW AND IN THE

MORNING. THEY DID STRESS,

THOUGH, TRYING TO QUELL

PEOPLE'S FEARS THAT THIS IS

NOTHING LIKE A SNIPER INCIDENT

THAT THERE WAS MANY YEARS AGO

IN DC LIVE IN RALEIGH, CHELSEA

DONOVAN WRAL, NEWS.

>> ALRIGHT CHELSEA AND WE SENT

THIS PUSH ALERT TO YOUR PHONE

AFTER RALEIGH. POLICE ANNOUNCED

THAT THEY WERE INVESTIGATING

THE SHOTS THAT WERE FIRED THIS

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