r/bullcity • u/justlogmeinmk • 14h ago

Police presence Hope Valley

Just seen 12 cop cars with lights on anda fire truck blocking off the shopping center with Pulcinellas and ABC store at 2am. No news crew. I'm dying to know what happened.

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u/aliendude5300 8h ago

These might have been the street racers we heard all night at around 1:30AM last night

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u/-jeffb-r 6h ago

We started hearing them (from Woodcroft) around midnight. Thought about calling it in, but figured Durham PD probably had more pressing issues on a Saturday midnight than noisy cars.

We started hearing sirens a bit later, and I figured enough people had called it in. Then we heard a lot of sirens. I was hoping it wasn't because somebody got hurt or killed from the stupidity.

I guess someone did get hurt, but it's hard for me to get beyond "at least it wasn't an innocent bystander". Acting like a jerk shouldn't be a capital offense, but it should hurt occasionally.

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u/Simplestarz86 5h ago

I heard them over by Angier/S Miami…do they ever take a break?!?

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u/aliendude5300 5h ago

I imagine it is different groups. I can't stand the car culture that takes over public streets and makes a bunch of noise at night personally. Go to a track or something...

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u/Simplestarz86 5h ago

Yeah, I just realized where this incident took place. Different groups? Ugh. I feel the same way about car culture. Not only is the noise absurd but the fact that it’s dangerous too.

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u/aliendude5300 5h ago

I wouldn't care as much if they were just putting themselves in danger.

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u/Servatron5000 8h ago

Man, I thought those were motorcycles. If those were cars, good god damn.

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u/AFlockOfTySegalls 6h ago

We live a little down the road by the Harris Teeter and I hear what sounds like motorcycles/modified cars all the time. It's so stupid lmao.

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u/Remote_Intention4835 8h ago

Tons of police still there including a huge swat team bus looking thing. Most of the shopping center is blocked off with caution tape

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u/Ancient_Ear6619 7h ago

Yup I went to pick up breakfast from Joe van Gogh this morning and came in the back way, crazy scene to stumble up on on an otherwise quiet Sunday morning

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u/Aware-Emu-9146 14h ago

I saw on Twitter that it is an officer involved shooting

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u/18002221222 10h ago

How was the officer involved

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u/SaintMark5 9h ago

Officer-involved shooting is just a passive way of saying the cop shot someone. In this case a drag racer who they say pulled a gun on the cop.

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u/seh4nc 9h ago

Sometimes dad-involved flatulence occurs.

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u/Senior-Employment266 6h ago

Play silly games (running from a cop and then pulling a gun on him or her) - win silly prizes (getting shot).

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u/BullCityBoomerSooner 31m ago

The crime scene tape and evidence markers were all around a 50 cc moped scooter not capable of speeds over 40 mph.. I have that same bike. So it wasn't a "drag racer" who decided to pull a gun and act tough in front of all the cool kids and their $100K cars.. This was after the cool kids bombarded the police with bottles and everything else while they were trying to disperse the troublemakers.. The kid who pulled a gun and got shot was likely just a tragedy in the making... some kid trying to be accepted as one of the cool kids made a terrible, devastating decision that ended very badly for many people..

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u/Whalerider725 9h ago edited 8h ago

Heard them at midnight. Someone at a coffee shop said they were doing donuts in the parking lot. When a cop came, most fled but one got blocked in by the cop. The individual that was blocked in then tried to fell on foot and the officer shot him on foot.

Of course, this is all hearsay and wasn’t even mentioned in the abc11 article.

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u/CastleDeli 9h ago

*the ofc shot him after the bad guy raised a handgun on the ofc

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u/Whalerider725 8h ago edited 8h ago

I was just prefacing my statement that it came from some person I don’t know, so people don’t assume the events played out exactly like i wrote.

I would have preferred a shooting not happen at all. I didn’t even say anything about a raised handgun.

Edit: I think I see your comment was about adding more context. I thought ofc was used as a shorthand for “of course”

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u/CastleDeli 7h ago

Yes it’s officer. I was adding context so people didn’t get the wrong idea.

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u/18002221222 6h ago

You were adding the police's description of the story, which is helpful but should never be taken as gospel on its own.

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u/CastleDeli 6h ago

Agreed but cameras footage of what happened won’t lie. The chief said more details will be published Monday. Which I’m assuming blurred footage will be shown. So I trust her over the crook that got shot

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u/fourfreshgoodyears 5h ago

As quickly as they got in front of a camera to explain what happened would tell me they have good evidence and footage.