1 killed, 5 people wounded by gunfire Saturday in Raleigh

One man was killed and five people were wounded by gunfire Saturday in Raleigh, according to police.

As of early Saturday evening, police had not reported any arrests, whether they had any suspects, or whether any of the shootings may have been connected.

“Detectives always look into the possibility that incidents are connected,” spokeswoman Donna-maria Harris said by email. “I’m confident that they are doing the same in this case.”

The fatal shooting was reported Saturday afternoon. At 3:49 p.m. officers responded to a call on Poole Road and found a man who had been shot.

He was taken to the hospital in serious condition and and died from multiple gunshot wounds, police stated in a news release. His name had not been released as of Saturday night.

The other reported shootings happened overnight.

▪ At 12:58 a.m., officers responded to a report of a gunshot victim who had walked in at WakeMed. The man had been shot in the foot, according to a Police Department tweet.. The shooting took place on South Fisher Street.

▪ At 1:49 a.m. officers responding to a call on Capital Boulevard found three people shot, a woman shot in the leg and two men, according to the Tweet and a news release. One of the men had multiple bullet wounds; the other had been shot in the face.

▪ At 2:55 a.m., a man walked into Duke Raleigh Hospital on Wake Forest Road with a gunshot wound to the foot, police said. He reported being shot on Greencastle Court.

At least nine other people have been shot in Wake County in the last two weeks, two of them fatally, The News & Observer has reported.

Anyone with information about Saturday’s shootings is asked to call Raleigh CrimeStoppers at 919-834-HELP or visit raleighcrimestoppers.org. CrimeStoppers pays cash rewards for anonymous tips that help solve cases.

This story was originally published June 27, 2020 at 9:47 AM.