Aditi Dholakia
Shots were fired at the Vie at Raleigh apartment complex at approximately 11 p.m. on Tuesday, damaging a third-floor apartment in building 309. There are no reported injuries, but a water pipe has burst as a result of the shots, with significant flooding on all three floors of the building.
At approximately 11 p.m. on Tuesday, shots were fired at the Vie at Raleigh apartment complex, damaging a third-floor apartment in building 309 and resulting in a burst water pipe.
No injuries have been reported, but the building has been declared a crime scene. Lieutenant J. W. Bunch of the Raleigh Police Department stated that there is no time frame for when residents are allowed back into their apartments, and that there is significant flooding on all three floors of the building.
Marissa Jerden, a third-year studying geology, lives in the affected apartment.
“I was in my room, I had just gotten out of the shower, and then all of a sudden I heard what sounded like five rocks hitting my building, and then my pipe burst,” Jerden said.
Daniel Watson, a second-year studying microbiology, lives in the apartment across the hall from where the bullets hit.
“I heard what sounded like gunshots, which I’m assuming now that they were. There’s a bullet hole in the third floor apartment wall,” Watson said. Watson was told by the police that residents would be allowed back into apartments about two hours after police arrived on scene, but there is no confirmation on that estimate.
According to the Raleigh Police Department scanner, the suspect is a black male wearing gray shorts, driving a white car with a damaged front bumper.
Shell casings were found in the street in front of the building. Jerden said her room has damage from bullet holes as a result of the shooting.
“Luckily I was safe, because you know that could have gone wrong so easily,” Jerden said. “But so far everyone is safe, it’s just property damage.”