Name: Day 1: N.C.'s redistricting trial
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Hearings start in North Carolina's gerrymandering lawsuits. A three-judge panel must decide whether Congressional and legislative maps passed by the General Assembly's Republican majority are constitutional.

Keith Baker

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<p>I'm WRAL meteorologist Kat Campbell. Thursday is the WRAL weather alert day, and the reason why we made that call is that we've got the threat for rain to impact both the morning and the evening commutes. Now most of us are just going to see a rainy day out there, but there will be the potential, the low end threat for some flooding. We could see between 0.5 inch and up to 1 inch and a half in spots, and this will be on and off throughout the day tomorrow. 8 a.m. we've got some rain around, especially in our southern counties. For the morning commute as we get later into the afternoon around lunchtime, still a high chance for rain, but we see the rain switch over to more scattered thunderstorms during the afternoon. This is when there could be some heavier rain, perhaps some thunder and lightning mixed in. It's not full coverage on the radar at 5 o'clock, but there will be at least some of us dealing with storms still for the evening commute, and this should begin to settle down once we get closer to sunset tomorrow night, and then overnight things dry out for us. Then we've got another system on the way Saturday. It's a cold front that arrives from the opposite direction from the west. That'll bring some decent rain as well. We could see a half an inch to 1 inch from the triangle north over the next 5 days, closer to 1 to 2 inches in areas just south and east of the triangle, especially east of by 95 toward the coast. That's where there could be some 2 to 4 inch totals. With all the rain that is on the way tomorrow. Temperatures stay cool, only warming up into the mid to upper 70s.</p>

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The Catawba County Sheriff's Office and other law enforcement officials hold a press conference to talk about Sunday's mass shooting that resulted in one death.

Mass violence event. We are looking at that homicide along with all of the other injured parties. We've received questions and they're understandable questions about why we have not charged someone in the homicide yet. Again, we have to be able to account for every shot. The shooter and the intended recipients and the actual recipients of those shots before we can discern who might be responsible for the homicide in this situation. I'll be back later for your questions. So this Good afternoon, Special Agent in Charge Porter with North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement. Uh, we are announcing today that arrest warrants have been obtained for two individuals. They are the individuals believed to be responsible for organizing and hosting the party. Uh, the first one is for Mr. Rayquan Craig. He's been charged with 3 counts of aiding and abetting, uh, underage possession of alcohol. Sorry. You see that one? And the other arrest warrant similar for Mr. Patrick Tolbert, uh, same three charges of aiding and abetting. We don't don't have the second, OK, that's right. We can get that to you. Uh, but it's the same charges 3 counts of aiding and abetting underage possession of alcohol by a person over the age of 21. Um, I'll keep my comments brief and then I, I can answer any questions at the end. Good afternoon. My name is James Barnicle. I'm the special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation here in North Carolina. First, the law enforcement coordination on this investigation has been nothing short of astounding. I want to thank, uh, our partners at Catawba County Sheriff's Office and Hickory Police Department and the State Bureau of Investigation and alcohol Enforcement along as many other law enforcement agencies that have stepped in and helped on this investigation, uh. The partners here are partners for the long haul. We are not in it for just the situation. We are in to work together to adjust crime across this country. When we got the call from Catawba County, we searched resources to assist. The county with the evidence response team, investigators, agents, intelligence analysts, and scientists. Once the news of this tragic situation was relayed to the director of the FBI Director Kash Patel, he called me Sunday and asked if the FBI or the local and state authorities needed additional resources. He surged lab personnel from Quantico down here to do a trajectory analysis of the crime scene. Director Patel also reiterated the FBI's top priority is to crush violent crime in the United States, and we will work on that here in North Carolina. The FBI has been working on the Walnut acres road scene. We expect to wrap up our work this afternoon or evening. What we have been primarily working on is, as you have heard, we are processing evidence and we are looking for the trajectory of rounds. Let me add some perspective why we have been there for 4 days. You've already heard at least 80 bullets were fired. Our teams are working to trace the trajectory of every single round. Once someone makes the choice to pull a trigger or a weapon, the bullet does not care where it goes. Our job is trace where it came from and where it stopped. The FBI is uniquely qualified for this crucially important task of gathering evidence. In this case, sadly, gunfire hit victims. Other bullets went into the house through fences, skipped off concrete, hit vehicles, and even burrowed into the ground. I was just out at the scene a little while ago this morning, late this morning, and our evidence response team has put Lasers and scopes and trajectory. There's a lot of science behind it, um, but we will account for the vast majority of the rounds, including the, the round itself and fragments. We have recovered rounds from the scene. Finally, To the district attorney's office, the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina. To the citizens here in North Carolina, people will be held accountable for these heinous crimes. The FBI will work with our partners. We will continue to partner to adjust the violent crime here in the state of North Carolina. I will now turn this over to the State Bureau of Investigation. Good afternoon. My name's Chris Laws. I'm a special agent in charge of the State Bureau investigation in the Northwestern District. As you know, the FBI was requested by the sheriff's office on Sunday, and since Sunday and that day forward, there have been agents on the ground all across Western North Carolina from 4 different districts and multiple counties from crime scene agents to investigators to other individuals with specialized skill sets that have assisted in this investigation and will continue. All resources at the disposal of the SBI and the state of North Carolina will be available here for this investigation, and we will be here until the end. Director Hawley's here and has assured us that all that we have whatever we need to assist our local partners, whether it's Hick Creek, Catawba County, any of the federal agencies to make sure that the people are held accountable for these for these crimes that they have committed. These crimes are heinous and having grown up in this community are unbelievable. I agree with the chief and the sheriff that it's hard for us to go out, spend countless hours around the clock, arrest these people and then they're back in the community. But rest assured the FBI and all of these partners that you see up here will not stop until those are held accountable are arrested. Like All right, I'll take your questions before we begin that, if you have a question for a specific agency other than the sheriff's office, we can get another of the, uh, representatives up here, but I'll start they fair to, uh, Erin, with the, um, help from the FBI and then doing all the analysis out there, do you have a better picture on how many different weapons and people might have been involved in this gunfire. That picture is becoming more clear. Again, uh, you've heard a lot about the trajectory work by the FBI that's been invaluable. We, uh, understand there's multiple shooters. Again, you've heard multiple rounds. The last count I was given was 80 at least that have been. Confirmed We can tell you now that the shooting began from a neighboring yard that was an elevated position from the house where the crime scene is now being investigated. In response to that initial gunfire. Other gunfire erupted from around the home itself and out into the front yard and by the roadway there on Walnut Acres Drive. We're trying to determine. If that gunfire was initiated and the and then second gunfire was directly responsive or if other shootings were taking place during that time. That's gonna take us a while to discern, but as you've heard, we're going to find those answers and bring those people to justice. bottle on that. So up on that hillside, people were somebody at least one person was shooting down. Do you do you know how many people were up on that hillside shooting down at the party? The evidence shows there are multiple people on that, uh, like you referred to it as a hillside. Uh, we don't have an exact count to offer as I stand here, but more than one type of weapons. We're not releasing that right now. Yes, ma'am. Do we know whether Sean Hood, the homicide victim, was the intended target? We do not know if he was the primary targets or perhaps even a sole targets. He certainly was victimized in this and certainly him and his family suffered the most traumatic victimization from this. He certainly was a target and again as I talk about intended victims or intended recipients of gunfire than the actual recipients were working to discern if Mr. Hood was an intended target or just a victim. That suffered his death during that tragedy. Yes ma'am. And um where do you place Killian in all of this as far as was he in the yard, was he, you know, as far as where he? Killian. Darren Killian, our evidence is telling us is among the persons responsible for the hillside shooting. We are looking at him, Mr. Huff and others for that seemingly uninitiated and unprovoked attack. Uh, we're not offer specifics about, uh, suspect's involvement and by way of direct action at this time. I can tell you though, from my understanding that Mr. Killian Garon Killian and To and Huff are at least two of the defendants that have been charged in the city of Hickory shooting there at the closed party city and so they're involved in that and then now they're involved in this, yes ma'am. We're not seeing any evidence right now of a direct connection, but we certainly hadn't ruled that out. Dave, um, so the killing guy and the other guy that had the picture up with the, um, charges, the single charge. Do you think that those two have found that they were at the party prior to this, something might have happened, they left and then came back. We're hearing that and we're trying to discern their exact movements and timeline. I, I can't offer articulate information on that as I stand here right now. I'll make sure that I get everybody, yes, ma'am, in the back. Or why We're certainly investigating, uh, and trying to discern the motive. We can tell you that some of these people are affiliated with gangs. They've they've made those admissions to us themselves. We do not know if this incident. Was a gang act in in its entirety or that some of the people involved are affiliated in gangs we're working that as a motive and then other possibilities yes ma'am. I have I can't answer that. With exacting determination as I stand here, but they were on the hillside when the initiation of the shooting began. Yes, ma'am. Were the majority of the people at the party over 21 or under 21? I don't know if that's a better question for ALE. I'm gonna let ALE address that and any alcohol related questions or party promotion questions will be alcohol law enforcement. He's over here, sir, go ahead. Would you mind repeating your question for me? The majority of the people at the party over 21 or 2? Uh, can't say what the majority were, but we know that there were numerous underage and several juveniles as well. Yes ma'am. Of Um, that is one that I will defer to Major Turk in the sheriff's office for right now. Yes, sir. Could you please tell us how many, how many people were shot? I will also defer that to Major Turk. He answers the alcohol related questions and the party promotion questions on the party promotion and what do we know about that party um where was it promoted who was the target audience? So it seems um that those details are still coming in but that a lot of this is shared on social media um and that these move around and um. A reason that we try to address these is that they are a common cause for violence like this, uh, just in this year alone since January we've investigated 9 such events, um, where an organizer or promoter has coordinated an illegal alcohol alcohol event, um, and in most of those alien agents haven't covered alcohol violations but also other serious criminal activity like narcotics and firearms. Um, so we're very happy to work with sheriff here and all the other partners to hopefully be able to prevent some of these things. Yes sir. homeowners. We're still working to figure that out right now. Yes ma'am. Those who have been arrested yet? Uh, the two that I that I announced there, uh, no, their arrest warrants are active and we're seeking them at this time. So as of right now is the only one arrested, right? I'll, I'll let the major confirm that. else Charged, um, we are certainly pursuing that to try to get anybody that is involved and responsible. Um, those two arrest warrants have been issued due to the, the facts that we believe, uh, allege their involvement in it. Still working to figure that out and I'll refer it back to Major Turk. Thank you. We're trying to figure that out. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. All right, who hadn't asked the question yet? Anybody that had got yes, sir, uh, could you tell us, Major, um, how many people were shot. We have Believe 8 to 10 confirmed persons that suffered gunshots and then others that were injured perhaps they were fleeing or otherwise there during the gunfire but not actually suffering gunshots. Yes sir. Are any of those injured still in the hospital currently? I don't have that information, uh, as I'm gonna be right now. All right, uh, that's gonna be it for questions. Thank you. Do you guys need me to go back through any of the. Right We did, we did add that you don't.

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Leaders from Buncombe County and the city of Asheville share an update on Wednesday about the region's recovery from Hurricane Helene after the storm brought devastating winds and flooding to the mountains in September, killing more than 100 people in North Carolina.

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Vance County deputies are searching for a missing 2-year-old in the Waterfront Drive area in Henderson, according to Sheriff Curtis Brame. This video does not have sound.


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Wake New Hope Fire Chief Ronny Mizell said a homeowner was doing work on Tuesday in his yard and found the device. Mizell said the device was a little bit longer than 1 foot.

Just off the top, tell us a bit about that initial call. Um, when did it come in? What was the report of? OK, so about 1:45, uh, Raleigh Wake 911 received a call with a suspicious package. Uh, units were dispatched and when they arrived on the scene. They met with the homeowners on what they, uh, he had been doing some work in his yard in recent rains revealed something to him and uh just appeared to be a large military. On further investigation, that is indeed what it was. So uh our units uh contacted the proper authorities uh Wake County, and uh they cleared the residents from the home. Uh, they're actually at our fire station right now, safe and sound, and. Wake County Sheriff's Department responded, but when they got on the scene, they contacted uh Raleigh Bomb squad, uh, Raleigh Bomb Squad, uh, they all surveyed it and looked at it and then. Uh, verified that it was in fact a large military ordinance, so they notified, uh, Fort Bragg, EOD, and they are in. To help mitigate In layman's terms, what is this military ordinance and you describe? So it's uh just over a foot long, uh, I, I would just describe it as a very large uh military round of bullet, but it's uh actually, uh, like I said, over 1 ft long and, and. Appears to been out there a while, but it is still something. You want to be very cautious with. Obviously, uh, not a call you get very often. I mean, uh, how do you approach situations like this? Um, upon arrival, you, uh, always do, uh, very, uh. Concise scene assessment. Be careful, recognize your surroundings, all the information that you can. Uh, fortunately, the homeowner again was there and gave them all the details, uh, and so they notified proper authorities and, and we, uh, we're blessed in this county to have lots of resources and lots of help and, uh, so they notified them they're on the scene. And so even after that specific ordinance gets removed, are you all going to conduct secondary searches of the property to see if there's anything else there? That is a wonderful question and the answer to that is yes. Um, Bragg EOD will survey the area. They'll do a clean sweep of it to make sure that there's no other ordinances out there. Is it too early to tell how long it's been out there or what era may have been from? Yeah, I think it's too early to tell at this time, but I'm sure the more details will come out. And it may sound common sense not to bury. The backyard, but you know, for people watching these broadcasts today, what would you say to them if they find something like that or if maybe they are considering burying something like that in their yard. Not a good idea. They need to contact Wake County Sheriff's Department, let them know what they have, and that way they can get the proper resources out there to dispose of it that it is an excellent. Forestville Road remains open at this point, so our understanding doesn't seem as if any other nearby properties are being evacuated. What's the discussion or thought process about potentially expanding that current that perimeter out. So they are bringing in. I guess the necessary equipment to dispose of it. And with that, I mean that when they get there and recognize exactly what it is, they don't know uh how much to, uh, how much more area they need to evacuate them. I think that. It seemed to me like the Closest house is about 1000 yards, so I think they were fine. In any time frame on how long, you know, it may take for uh the full rig crew when they get here. They were about 1 hour and just, just a little bit over an hour away when I left the scene 1 minutes ago. Do you know how long that process typically takes? I this is, um, you know, it, it won't take them long to recognize exactly what they have and what they need to do. Probably the longer we'll be doing a clean sweep and clearing that property to make sure there's no, no more. One interesting point was they actually called. Um, Intel called further back to see who the history of that home, who lived there, uh, what they did, um, if they were military or if they were involved in anything and have any reason to have any other military, uh, coordinances and stuff there, so. OK We need to see that process work in your career. Have you had any situations like this in your area? Many, many years ago, um, when we had uh an occurrence that I think back then it was maybe TT&E when they ended up with, uh, they had a uh a large amount of military mortars, um, so we had, um, that was a, a significant operation to. Secure that area, make it safe, evacuate, and then they came in and did their will to dispose of it and get rid of them in a safe manner. Any idea of how deep in the ground it was? Um, you know, he was doing some work out there and, and, uh, the, the recent rains, uh, sort of helped reveal it, so it wasn't too far underground. I would, I'm estimating maybe 68 inches in the. Can you uh say and spell your first and last name for us on? It's Ronnie R O N N Y, last name Mall, M I Z E L L. I'm fire chief at Wake New Oak Fire Department in Windale. Thanks, Jake, appreciate it. Thank you very much thank you appreciate it.

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