Father of Rocky Mount police officer dies after shooting in park

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. (WTVD) -- A community is in mourning after the father of a Rocky Mount Police officer was shot and killed Thursday.

Police said officers responded shortly after 5:30 p.m. to Sunset Park for a shooting call. When officers arrived, they found 58-year-old Jaime De La Fuente inside a vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds.

He later died of his injuries at UNC Nash Hospital.

Authorities said the suspect, 47-year-old Calvin Conyers, ran away on foot to Chico's Mexican Restaurant on Sunset Avenue. He then pulled out a gun and attempted to take a vehicle that was in the parking lot with a woman and child inside, before injuring himself with a self-inflicted gunshot.

Police said Conyers is listed in critical condition at a hospital.

Investigators said a fourth victim was also found with a non-life-threatening injury.

Conyers is facing multiple charges, including first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and two counts of second-degree kidnapping.

Rocky Mount Police said the shooting is being investigated as a homicide, but that it appeared to be an isolated incident and there was no immediate public threat.

Anyone with information on this case is urged to please contact the Rocky Mount Police Department at (252) 972-1411. Anonymous tips can be submitted through Tip411 by texting "RMPD" and your message to 847411.

5TH ARREST IN DOUBLE HOMICIDE

Also in Rocky Mount on Thursday night, police announced that a fifth person had been arrested in a double homicide case that left a 19-year-old and a 20-year-old dead on July 13.

That shooting happened in the 800 block of Virginia Street,

Isaiah Spragley, 18, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with first-degree murder. He is being held with no bond at the Edgecombe County Detention Center.

Read more on that case here.

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