Raleigh man shot, taken to hospital with serious injuries, police confirm

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- A man had to be taken to the hospital with serious injuries due to a shooting in a Raleigh neighborhood Monday afternoon.

When ABC11 Eyewitness News crews arrived on Morningside Drive, a man was outside dressed only in a bath towel speaking with police without handcuffs.

One neighbor who did not want to appear on camera confirmed to ABC11 that the man lived at the home, and at least one other man also lived there.

After about an hour, the man on the porch went inside the house with a Raleigh Police Department (RPD) officer before coming out, fully clothed and still without handcuffs, before sitting in the backseat of a police cruiser and driving off. That man's connection with the shooting was not immediately known.

Another neighbor, who also declined to appear on camera, said his security camera footage captured a white SUV pull up to the house around noon Monday, and a man getting out of that vehicle and going into the house. A few moments later, the man ABC11 saw in the bath towel ran out of the house and began pacing outside and talking on the phone. A few minutes after that, the first Raleigh police officers arrived.

Investigators with CCBI and RPD continued photographing and searching the property - those crews also opened up all the doors of the white SUV parked outside and searched the vehicle.

"They seemed like really nice guys," said Jim Cobb, who lives nearby, of the house's residents. "My wife and I walk past here often just on walks and we've met most of

them, both of them -- not by name but just to say hello and they seemed like really nice guys."

Cobb said he was shocked to hear about a shooting in the neighborhood.

"I was surprised, this is not the neighborhood where you would see a swarm of police cars at any time," he said. "I've been here, geez over 10 years, and nothing like this has ever happened."