Raleigh police investigating 17-year-old girl’s death as a homicide
The Raleigh Police Department is investigating the homicide of a 17-year-old girl who was found in a car parked in a Bojangles’ parking lot off Jones Sausage Road on Saturday evening.
Officers were dispatched at 8:18 p.m. to the restaurant in the 3900 block of Jones Sausage Road, near the Interstate 40 interchange, where they found Veronica Lee Baker in a car. Wake County Emergency Medical Services personnel declared Baker dead at the scene.
Police have not released any additional information, including how Baker died.
Detectives are asking for the public’s help to determine what happened to Baker. They ask anyone with information to call Raleigh CrimeStoppers at 919-834-4357 or visit raleighcrimestoppers.org. CrimeStoppers pays cash rewards for anonymous tips that help solve cases.
This story was originally published August 16, 2020 at 6:13 PM.
