Woman Shot on Windy Hill Drive in North Raleigh, Expected to Recover

A woman shot on Windy Hill Drive in north Raleigh Tuesday evening is expected to survive, Raleigh Police confirmed, after officers found her with serious injuries in a neighborhood quickly cordoned off while investigators worked the scene.

Officers responded at approximately 5:55 p.m. on April 7 and located the injured woman, who was transported to the hospital. Despite the severity of her wounds, she is expected to be OK. Police have not publicly identified the victim or named any suspects.

The investigation centered on a car on Windy Hill Drive, with multiple evidence markers spread across the blocked-off street. WRAL's Sky 5 helicopter flew over the area and documented the scene: several police cruisers, crime scene tape, and evidence markers lining the road through what local television coverage described as a busy north Raleigh neighborhood. Residents were advised to avoid the immediate area during evidence collection.

As of Wednesday, no arrests had been announced and the investigation remained active. Anyone with information, dashcam footage, or doorbell video from the area is asked to contact the Raleigh Police Department or Crime Stoppers.

The shooting came during a violent stretch across the Raleigh area. In March, a teenager was killed in a shooting on Springshire Court in southeast Raleigh. On March 22, Jorge Dorantes-Carranza, 33, was killed and another man was seriously injured at the Patio Nightclub; two suspects, Giovanny Hernandez-Jaramillo, 35, and Martha Jones, 52, were later arrested in connection with that case. In early April, shots were fired into the air on Faircloth Street in west Raleigh, and a man was found with five gunshot wounds in Oxford near Raleigh Road.

The incidents arrive against a mixed backdrop of crime data. The Raleigh Police Department's 2025 annual report showed total violent crime down 1%, property crime down 17%, and traffic fatalities down 3% compared to 2024. Car thefts fell sharply, with stolen vehicles dropping from 946 in 2024 to 793 in 2025. Homicides, however, edged upward from 27 to 28, a 4% increase, and robberies climbed 19%. Raleigh's crime rate of approximately 33 incidents per 1,000 residents, drawn from the most recent FBI-sourced data, remains higher than in more than 85% of North Carolina communities.