Hedingham Mass Shooting Body Cam Footage (Noise Warning): Officer conversations

The first body camera video from the Oct. 13 massacre in Raleigh’s Hedingham neighborhood was released Thursday, seven weeks after a shooter opened fire, killing five people and wounding two others.
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The first body camera video from the Oct. 13 massacre in Raleigh’s Hedingham neighborhood was released Thursday, seven weeks after a shooter opened fire, killing five people and wounding two others.
Thursday marks the first time Raleigh police have released video from the shooting and subsequent response. The volume and quantity of firepower is apparent during the intense footage. The content of the video may be disturbing to some.
Three videos were released by the department with along with a compilation video composed of all three clips.

The clip contains multiple angles of a roughly 5-minute period about 90 minutes after five people were killed.

The summary video begins with footage of officers on a K-9 track trying to find the suspect described as a white male wearing camouflage. Officers were huddled in a fenced-in plot of land in a wooded area with several sheds.

“We’re on a track,” one person could be heard saying.

Around three minutes into the compilation video, shots are fired. Raleigh officers fired more than 20 shots in total. Two officers and four Wake County deputies fired shots in the clip.

During the search, someone fires several rounds at officers from a building he was hiding in. One Raleigh officer, Casey Clark, appears to go down at the first shot. Clark was shot in the knee and gunfire is exchanged between officers and Austin Thompson. The officers then took cover and began to assess where Thompson was hiding.

“I am nauseous but I’m good,” said Clark, who was eventually released from the hospital.

Another clip contains Clark’s body cam, capturing the moments he falls to the ground from the inital shot.

The seven victims ranged in age from 16 to 60. Those who lost their lives included an off-duty Raleigh police officer, Gabriel Torres, 29; James Thompson, 16, the suspected gunman’s older brother; Mary Marshall, 24; Nicole Connors, 52; and Susan Karnatz, 49.
Clark, 33, was treated and released from the hospital, and Marcille “Lynn” Gardner, a special education teacher who just turned 60, is walking again after a weeks-long hospital stay.
The medical condition of Austin Thompson, 15, the suspected gunman, continues to improve, sources tell WRAL News. The suspect was taken into police custody 4 hours and 27 minutes after the first 911 call was received, and sources told WRAL News he suffered multiple injuries, including a serious wound to the head, during a standoff with police.

Police have yet to say where Austin Thompson got the guns he allegedly used in the mass shooting.
Timeline of mass shooting
The first 911 call on Oct. 13 was received at 5:09 p.m. Raleigh police officers responded to the east Raleigh neighborhood and golf community off New Bern Avenue in about 10 minutes.

More than an hour later, the suspect was spotted running into woods near Tarheel Club Road. At 6:42 p.m., officers located suspect near a barn on McConnell Oliver Drive.

According to Raleigh Police Department report released five days after the shooting, “As officers were attempting to search the area, the suspect fired multiple shots at the officers from one of the buildings.”

Police reported using drones and robots to get a visual of the suspect inside a barn.

At 7:28 p.m., police said the suspect was “holding the shotgun up,” but it’s unclear where the gun was pointed.

Two Raleigh police officers and four Wake County sheriff’s deputies exchanged fire with the suspect. All six remain on administrative leave per department protocol.

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