Raleigh Police Take Down Shooter Firing at Officers

* (Disclaimer: This video content is intended for educational and informational purposes only) * 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