(AP Photo/Jonathan Drew). The home of Raleigh shooting suspect 39-year-old Chad Cameron Copley is seen Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016, in Raleigh, N.C. Police say Copley fired a shotgun from inside his garage and fatally struck a 20-year-old black man. Witnesse.
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Denkins’ mother told reporters that, according to accounts from other people in the area of the shooting, her son was fleeing and “they couldn’t catch him, so they shot at him seven times”.
It begins when a man calls police from Copley’s two-story single-family home to report “a bunch of hoodlums out here racing”.
The two friends stood outside, waiting for someone to give them permission to come in, when, Walker said, a person they knew told them: “Bro, it ain’t no girls”. “I’m locked and loaded, and I’m going outside to secure my neighborhood”. I am going to have the neighborhood meet these hoodlums out here racing up and down the street.
A dispatcher then calls Copley’s home to gather more details, and the man who made the initial call tells the dispatcher, “Ma’am, I don’t know these f***ing people”.
The female caller then gives the phone to a male caller who sounds like the man from the previous 911 call.
Copley: We have a lot of people outside of our house yelling and shouting profanities. “I yelled at them ‘Please leave the premises.’ They were showing firearms so I fired a warning shot”, the male caller tells the dispatcher in the second call.
Police said the incident happened around 1 a.m. Sunday morning when Copley fired a shot from inside his garage. They do have firearms, and I’m trying to protect myself and my family.
When the dispatcher asks who was outside, the caller says, “There’s black males outside my freaking house with firearms”.
Police refused to name the caller per state law, but the time and address identification suggest that Copley was the man on the line. Copley was arrested hours later and was held on a murder charge.
Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas and pal David Walker were walking back to a vehicle parked along the street at approximately 1 a.m. Sunday when the shot came from the suspect’s house, according to Thomas’ mother, who had spoken with witnesses about what took place. However, police spokesperson Laura Hourigan did not elaborate where Thomas was when he was shot. “He turned his head back to me, and that’s when a shot went off”.
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Be proactive – Use the “Flag as Inappropriate” link at the upper right corner of each comment to let us know of abusive posts. “We were all looking around like, who got a gun?” Walker added that the party was quiet when he and Thomas arrived. “They take my baby…this is the worst”, she said.
