Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson praised First Class Officer Max Gillick, who was wounded during a shooting Tuesday as he responded to a call in the Renaissance Park neighborhood."He's a hero. Very heroic,
The shooter, later identified as George Colom Jr., eventually died from his injuries after being taken to the hospital in critical condition, Raleigh police said early Sunday morning. A male bystander who was also shot suffered non-life threatening injuries, Police Chief Estella Patterson said at a news conference.
The Raleigh Police Department (RPD) are conducting a shooting investigation in the North Hills shopping center area.
Police in Raleigh said the shooting was not a "random incident" and appeared to be a "dispute between parties"
George Colom, the man accused of shooting two other men in Raleigh’s North Hills, has a criminal history. He was the executive chef of Coquette, the restaurant where Friday’s shooting took place.
The executive chef at a French restaurant in Raleigh shot two people at his workplace Friday, killing one and injuring another. He then turned the gun on himself and remains in critical condition at the hospital.
During a deep freeze followed by snow Tuesday, the North Carolina Department of Transportation dispatched some 300 snowplows throughout central North Carolina.
We won’t tolerate public officials breaching the public’s trust to help criminals, whether they are family or not.”
The incident took place at Coquette, a French restaurant in a North Hills mall, located in an affluent area of Raleigh on Friday. While the call was initially for an ‘active shooter,’ police later confirmed it was not a traditional ‘active shooter’ situation.
A North Carolina husband killed his wife and confessed to the murder in a chilling Facebook post before turning the gun on himself in a bizarre murder-suicide.
The Raleigh police officer who remains in critical condition after a shooting call Tuesday evening was identified Thursday as an Army veteran who joined the department in 2022.