It happened just before 8:30 p.m. in the 500 block of Dorothea Drive.
Officers found a man with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital for treatment.
The extent of his injuries was not immediately known.
The shooting happened not far from where the family of the Southeast Raleigh Magnet High student who died after a stabbing at the school held a balloon release in his memory.
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