911 caller describes gunshots as Cary man found dead by neighborhood pool

Cary police identified a 55-year-old man killed Thursday afternoon as town resident Selvaraju Vellingiri.

Officers responded to a call reporting five gunshots near a neighborhood pool and wooded area just after 4 p.m. in the 100 block of Connemara Drive, according to police and a copy of the 911 call released Saturday night.

“It was pop, pop, pop, pop, pop in a row,” the caller told the 911 operator.

The street is in the Somerset neighborhood in west Cary, just off of N.C. 55.

Police found Vellingiri near the pool with gunshot wounds.

Wake County property records show he lived on a street in the neighborhood where he was shot.

“We’re making very good progress in the investigation,” Deputy Chief of Police Shawn Anderson stated in a news release Saturday night. “Based on what we know to this point, the victim in this case was not targeted due to his ethnicity nor was it domestic violence. That’s all we can share at this time.”

This is Cary’s first homicide of the year, according to police.

Cary had only one homicide in 2016 and in 2019. There were no homicides in 2017 and in 2018, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

There were five homicides reported in 2015.

This story was originally published August 28, 2020 at 9:14 PM.