Another night in Raleigh has been marred by gun violence, with a shooting leaving one man critically injured near the bustling intersection of North Raleigh Boulevard and New Bern Avenue. CBS 17 reports that the incident occurred promptly before 8:30 p.m. at Oakwood Avenue and Colleton Road, a stone’s throw from the intersection’s thrum of activity. The Raleigh Police Department found the wounded man at the scene, suffering from a bullet wound, under the indifferent gaze of the city’s streetlights. CBS 17 described the victim’s condition as critical.
According to ABC11, the man had been shot in the hip, a wound with the potential to quickly turn fatal. The bullet, indifferent to its damage, has altered the trajectory of yet another life. The victim found himself quickly to be taken to a hospital, where his fight for survival hangs by a thread. Thus far, law enforcement has not managed to apprehend anyone in connection with the shooting, and the specter of the perpetrator still looms large, with no arrests to report…