Deputies investigate shooting near Fayetteville Road, man hospitalized in Wake County
Deputies found a gunshot victim about 90 minutes after shots were reported near Fayetteville Road, but say there is no known threat to the community.
Wake County deputies said a southern Wake County shooting left one man hospitalized Wednesday night, but investigators have not identified any ongoing danger for people near Fayetteville Road.
Deputies were called around 8 p.m. to reports of shots fired in the 9100 block of Fayetteville Road near Raleigh, close to Wake Tech Community College and the 540 corridor. When deputies reached the area, they could not immediately find a victim, and witnesses were not sure whether anyone had been hit. That uncertainty continued for more than an hour while investigators searched the area and tried to pin down what had happened.
Around 9:40 p.m., investigators found a man with a gunshot wound at a nearby apartment. He was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. By then, deputies were trying to sort out where the shooting started, where the victim moved afterward and whether anyone else was involved.
The sheriff’s office said it had found a person of interest and said there was no known threat to the community. That is the clearest signal so far for people living along the busy Fayetteville Road corridor, where apartments, businesses and commuter traffic make any gunfire immediately visible far beyond the people directly involved.
The case is now moving from an emergency response into a criminal investigation. Wake County says the sheriff’s office is the primary law enforcement agency for unincorporated parts of the county, and the county’s Criminal Investigations division says its Person Crimes Unit handles violent offenses including murder, rape, robberies, assaults and arsons.
Wake County also says residents and media can seek public records and incident information through its records and public information systems. For now, the key facts are that one man was shot, the injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, and deputies do not believe there is an active threat to the wider community.
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