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Police investigate shooting near Raleigh Speedway on Jones Sausage Road

A man walked into the Speedway on Jones Sausage Road with shotgun wounds to his head and side after an early shooting. Raleigh police are investigating.

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Police investigate shooting near Raleigh Speedway on Jones Sausage Road
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Raleigh police investigated an early-morning shooting near a Speedway gas station on Jones Sausage Road after a man arrived with shotgun wounds to his head and side on July 22. The case centered on the 4000 block of Jones Sausage Road in southeast Raleigh, and police said the injured man was taken to the hospital.

Officers responded around 1:06 a.m. to the area near the Speedway, where the shooting had already drawn attention before sunrise. The location sits along Jones Sausage Road, a stretch that now marks the center of Raleigh’s latest violent-crime investigation.

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Around 3 a.m., the man walked into the Speedway and said he had been shot by a shotgun. An employee at the store called 911, and the man’s injuries were described as wounds to his head and side.

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Police have not released details about what led to the shooting, and no suspect information has been made public. That leaves the July 22 case open at the point where the gunfire, the gas station and the hospital transfer intersected, with Raleigh police still examining how the encounter began and who was involved.

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