Man injured in north Raleigh shooting on Magnolia Court
A man was shot on Magnolia Court in north Raleigh and was expected to recover. Police later charged 33-year-old Eddie Thomasson in the case.
Police later charged 33-year-old Eddie Thomasson in a north Raleigh shooting that left a man injured on Magnolia Court and expected to recover.
Officers were called around 4:17 a.m. to the 6700 block of Magnolia Court, near Lynn Road and Lead Mine Road, where Raleigh police said they found a person who had been shot. In the first hours after the gunfire, police had not released any information about a suspect or what led to the shooting, leaving neighbors with few details about whether the violence was targeted or part of a larger dispute.
The victim’s condition kept the case from becoming a fatal shooting, but it still pointed to a serious violent-crime investigation in a residential part of north Raleigh. Magnolia Court sits in an area where nearby streets carry commuters, shoppers and families through the same corridors every day, which makes a shooting on a neighborhood block feel immediate to people living close by.
WRAL later reported that the injured man was expected to recover from his injuries. In a later update, the station said Thomasson, 33, faced multiple felony charges in connection with the shooting. ABC11 reported that police said he fired a gun into a home, hitting someone inside, and that the victim sustained life-threatening injuries but remained stable.
CBS 17 reported that investigators believed shots were fired into the building before the suspect fled. That detail gave the case a sharper shape than the first police call suggested, turning an early-morning report of shots fired into a charged case tied to a specific home on Magnolia Court.
For Raleigh residents, the timeline showed how quickly an unanswered call in a neighborhood can become a formal criminal case. What began with an injured man and no suspect information ended with charges against Thomasson, and investigators were left to piece together the moments before and after the shots were fired near Lynn Road and Lead Mine Road.
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