Police make arrest in fatal shooting at North Raleigh nightclub early Saturday morning
Police say they have arrested the man who shot another in the parking lot outside a nightclub on New Hope Church Road early Saturday morning.
Marlon Xavier Cruz Gonzalez, 22, was arrested Sunday and charged with murder. Police say he shot Jose Almando Blanco Colon, 21, who later died at the hospital.
Police say they received a call at 2:18 a.m. Saturday about gunshots in the parking lot of Mambo 69, near the corner of New Hope Church and Atlantic Avenue. When they got there, police couldn’t find anyone who had been hit by gunfire.
Then at 3:05 a.m., WakeMed notified police that a man had arrived at the hospital’s main campus off New Bern Avenue with a gunshot wound. The man later died.
Late Saturday, police identified the man as Colon, but have not provided any other details about what led to the shooting or if Colon and Gonzalez knew each other.
This is at least the 25th homicide in Raleigh this year, according to police reports. The city had 17 homicides last year and 27 the year before that.
There have been two other fatal shootings at Mambo 69 in recent years. A 40-year-old man was killed in a shooting at the bar in June 2014, and a 22-year woman died after she and a man were shot there in August 2016.
This story was originally published November 17, 2019 at 7:34 PM.
