Raleigh neighbors say shooting was fight between men on double date

Wednesday, May 17, 2017
RALEIGH, North Carolina (WTVD) -- Neighbors in the Battle Ridge subdivision in Southeast Raleigh tell ABC11 that the deaths of two men in the neighborhood early Wednesday may have been a murder-suicide.

They say a woman who lives in the 7000 block of Spranglers Spring Way moved in with her child and husband a few months ago, but the husband moved out not long after.
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Not long after the shooting at 4:40 a.m. several neighbors say the woman who lives at the house told them she had been on a double date and the two men started fighting.

Raleigh police said the shooting victim was 36-year-old John Douglas Nye. Frederic Wade Wheeler, 28, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Eight hours after the gunshots rang out, Raleigh investigators allowed the men's bodies to be removed from the house.
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Although police haven't officially confirmed whether the shooting was a murder-suicide, they say the crime was not random and that they are not looking for a suspect.




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