By Ron Gallagher and Thomas McDonald
The News & Observer
RALEIGH, N.C. — A Raleigh police officer was reportedly wounded by a gunshot at a house on Donald Ross Drive late Monday morning, and police took a man into custody.
The officer was taken to WakeMed Hospital for treatment of what was reported to be a leg wound. Police say a second person was also taken to WakeMed, but it’s not clear if it was the man who was arrested.
Police sealed off an area around Donald Ross Drive and Kidd and Haven roads, near the entrance to Raleigh Country Club.
Police had been dispatched to the area after a woman called 911 at 11:36 a.m. to report a man with a gun in the 200 block of Donald Ross Drive.
“There’s a man with a gun outside,” said the woman on a recording of the call released Monday afternoon. “And he’s trespassing, because he’s not supposed to be here.”
When the dispatcher asked what the man looked like, the woman said he was a black man with a light complexion who wore a white T-shirt, jeans and blue sneakers. She said he was carrying the gun in his pants, then she became impatient with the dispatcher and hung up.
The follow-up call that an officer had been shot brought a large number of police, whose cars lined Donald Ross Drive early Monday afternoon. Diana Powell, an anti-gang activist and director of Justice Served NC, arrived at the scene after hearing sirens from her home nearby.
“I’m used to hearing sirens,” she said, “but they just kept coming.”
At about 1:45 p.m., several uniformed officers and at least two detectives visited a duplex apartment on nearby Warren Avenue. Two officers went to the front door of the duplex, while the rest went around back. No one answered the door.
Police Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown arrived about 2 p.m. but did not speak with reporters.