A North Carolina district attorney is planning on charging the 15-year-old male suspect in Thursday's shooting in Raleigh, which left five people dead, as an adult.
Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman told Fox News Digital that she plans to charge the 15-year-old male suspect as an adult, "assuming he recovers." The 15-year-old male, who hasn't been named by officials, is accused of opening fire in Raleigh near the Neuse River Greenway area shortly after 5 p.m.
on Thursday. After being "contained" by authorities, but not taken into custody, for a period of time on Thursday, the suspect was arrested.
According to Raleigh Police Chief Estella D. Patterson, the crime scene went on for "over 2 miles." Wake County Sheriff's deputies work at the scene where a deputy was shot and killed in eastern Wake County, N.C., near the intersection of Auburn Knightdale and Battle Bridge Road, Friday, Aug.
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