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Police in Raleigh, North Carolina, responded to a shooting late on Thursday that left up to six people dead, including a police officer, an ABC News affiliate reported, citing law enforcement sources.

Raleigh Police tweeted it was on the scene of an active shooting and urged local residents to stay at home.The suspected shooter was thought to be a white teenage male with a long gun, the ABC News affiliate reported, adding no one had been taken into custody yet but that the suspect had been cornered in a garage by authorities.Helicopter footage from CNN affiliate WRAL-TV showed more than a dozen emergency vehicles lined up on a road through a wooded area.

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper said he spoke to Raleigh Mayor Mary-Ann Baldwin and was deploying state resources to assist at the scene. At least four shooting victims were taken to the WakeMed hospital, it said, without providing details on the victims’ conditions.

 

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SABC News you writing about North Carolina as if it is in South Africa. Need to state that this is USA. Or journalist here is dreaming being in US. You are a South African news agency. Stop dreaming and describe geographical locations properly.

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