Five killed, two injured in Raleigh shooting; suspect taken into custody after nearly three-hour perimeter

A five-day report places the first 911 call of shots fired at 5:09 p.m. and Raleigh Police on-scene at 5:19 p.m. Two victims have been named: Gabriel Torres and Raleigh Police officer Casey Clark.

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people were killed and were injured in a shooting in , The suspect is , and the incident is no longer active. A five-day report states that the first 911 call of shots fired came in at :09 p.m., and that Police arrived on-scene at :19 p.m. Police and the Selective Enforcement Unit responded. . The calendar date of the shooting is not given in the material available, and the location has been specified no more precisely than the . victims have been named. Gabriel Torres was identified by Zachary Williamson, a 911 telecommunicator at the dispatch center, in an interview; Torres was killed. Casey Clark, a Police officer, was named in the five-day report. The material available does not say whether Clark was among the killed or the injured, and it does not identify the other victims. Staff at the 's dispatch center described the moment the calls came in. "I heard him yell across the room something like 'the shooter's on the move, the suspect's on the move.' The urgency in his voice, there was something in his voice that triggered me to let me go down and see what's going on. And then when I stood behind him and saw him taking the call, that's when I realized something was different about this call," said Jonathon Leal, an operations manager at the dispatch center. Williamson, a telecommunicator at the dispatch center, said of the response: "This was something even more above and beyond what we'd normally expect." No official statement in the material available addresses a motive or gives a fuller account of how the shooting unfolded.

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Aug 19, 2026, 9:39 a.m. ETFirst report
Five killed, two injured in Raleigh shooting; suspect in custody
Five people were killed and two were injured in a shooting in Raleigh, N.C. The suspect is in custody, and the incident is no longer active.
According to the five-day report, the first 911 call of shots fired came at 5:09 p.m., and Raleigh Police arrived on-scene at 5:19 p.m.
Raleigh Police and the Selective Enforcement Unit responded. In Raleigh, officers set up a perimeter for nearly three hours before members of the Selective Enforcement Unit made entry to the building and took the suspect into custody.
Two of the casualties are named in the material available. Gabriel Torres was named by Zachary Williamson, a 911 telecommunicator at the dispatch center, in an interview; Torres was among those killed. The five-day report names Casey Clark, a Raleigh Police officer; the material available does not state whether Clark was among those killed or those injured.
Staff at the city's dispatch center described the moment the calls came in. "I heard him yell across the room something like 'the shooter's on the move, the suspect's on the move.' The urgency in his voice, there was something in his voice that triggered me to let me go down and see what's going on. And then when I stood behind him and saw him taking the call, that's when I realized something was different about this call," said Jonathon Leal, operations manager at the Raleigh dispatch center. Williamson, describing the same shift, said: "This was something even more above and beyond what we'd normally expect."
Beyond Torres and Clark, the material available does not name those killed or injured. It also does not give the date of the shooting or any account of a motive.

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