Drive-by shooting injures two in southeast Raleigh neighborhood

Gunfire struck a southeast Raleigh neighborhood Sunday evening, injuring two people on Follow Me Way and leaving investigators without a suspect description, motive or vehicle. Police said the shooting was reported around 6:40 p.m. in the 2500 block of the street, a residential area off Rock Quarry Road and east of Interstate 40.

Officers arriving at the scene found evidence of gunfire and confirmed that two people had been hurt. Investigators said it was not yet clear whether both victims were actually struck by bullets. At least one person was taken to a nearby hospital, but police did not publicly release an update on the extent of the injuries before the night ended.

The response came as police were also checking another shots-fired scene about half a mile away on Rock Quarry Road. Authorities said the two locations were not tied together, but the back-to-back calls drew fresh concern in a part of southeast Raleigh where families live and traffic is mostly local, not tied to downtown nightlife or a highway chase.

By late Sunday, the Raleigh Police Department had not released any suspect information, a vehicle description or a possible motive. That left residents with key questions still unanswered, including whether the shooting was targeted or random and whether anyone else in the area had been put at risk when the shots were fired.

Raleigh also publishes crime information through its open-data system, which uses the National Incident-Based Reporting System and posts annual and quarterly statistics. That data can help place a shooting like this in a wider Wake County pattern, but the immediate picture in southeast Raleigh was still the same Sunday night: two people hurt, a residential block marked by gunfire and detectives starting from a thin set of public facts.