Raleigh Police Take Down Shooter Firing at Officers

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Raleigh, North Carolina — On March 27, 2023, Raleigh Police received several calls about a suspect standing in the middle of the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Coleman Street intersection while shooting at occupied vehicles. Police said a caller reported the suspect unsuccessfully tried to open the door of a car stopped at a traffic light. Officers got there at 6:57 a.m. and reported seeing the suspect make their way into a nearby residential neighborhood on Cumberland Street, Raleigh police said. Ligon Middle School was briefly put on a lockdown as the situation unfolded a short distance from the school. Body cam and dash cam video show the three officers (Sgt. R.A. Sirianna and Officers M.L. Adams and P.J. Fernstrum) arriving at the 700 block of Cumberland Street, just east of downtown, around 7 a.m.

The officers saw the suspect, identified as Jorge Luis Vega-Lesam. The officers got out of their cars and began to approach him. Adams sees he is armed and relays this to the other officers. Several shots are heard coming from the suspect’s direction. Adams fires three times at Vega-Lesama. Vega-Lesama then retreats behind a house in the neighborhood temporarily. Seconds later, he begins firing at officers again. Officer Sirianna exit his police vehicle with a rifle. He is repeatedly fired at and cannot determine where the suspect is shooting from. Sirianna then fires four shots, killing the suspect. Officers then call for an urgent EMS response before approaching the downed Vega-Lesama. Police said he was found with a handgun with an additional magazine lying next to him. Vega-Lesama fired five shots at officers.

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2:46 - Bodycam: Officer #1
5:21 - Bodycam: Officer #2