Cary police investigate shooting at Dollar General store on East Chatham Street
Police released no additional information Thursday about a shooting outside a Dollar General store in east Cary that injured at least one person.
The shooting, reported at 3:43 p.m. Wednesday, occurred in the store’s parking lot at 832 E. Chatham St., next door to a Bojangles restaurant in the Chatham Village shopping center.
A person injured was in stable condition Wednesday evening, police spokesperson Lt. John Reeves said in a news release.
The release did not say whether the injured person is a man or woman. It did not say whether police made any arrests or had any suspects.
There have been eight 911 calls to that Dollar General store location in the past year, Reeves said in an email Thursday.
A shift manager at the La Bonita grocery store across from the Dollar General told The News & Observer by phone that she did not hear or see anything until police arrived.
“To tell you the truth, I’ve never heard of anyone getting robbed or shot in this place,” Nereyda Diaz said in Spanish. “It’s the first time that I hear of a shooting (in this shopping center).”
An employee at Vida Dulce, a restaurant next door, said he did not see anything until police cars pulled up Wednesday afternoon.
Shootings rare in Cary
The shooting was the town’s second this year in which someone was killed or injured, Reeves said in the email.
The other shooting in Cary this year was a fatal shooting in late August in the Somerset neighborhood in west Cary.
Cary had only one homicide in 2016 and in 2019, The N&O reported previously.
There were no homicides in 2017 and in 2018 and five reported in 2015, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
This story was originally published December 2, 2020 at 4:57 PM.
