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Multiple cars were hit by gunfire on Wednesday morning along Interstate 40 near Chapel Hill Road, adding to similar reports of cars being shot at on Monday.

Raleigh police investigating 6 reports of cars being shot at along I-40 this week

<p>TO MAKE AN EMERGENCY LANDING AT RDU. &gt;&gt; BREAKING NEWS FROM WRAL COVERAGE. YOU CAN COUNT ON. THAT BREAKING NEWS IN WAKE COUNTY. THE SEARCH IS ON FOR THE PERSON WHO SHOT AT LEAST 6 CARS ON ONE OF THE STATE'S BUSIEST HIGHWAYS. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. I'M GERALD OWENS AND I'M ASHLEY WROTE THIS WAS THE SCENE ALONG I-FORTY TODAY NEAR GORMAN STREET. THE GUNFIRE BROKE OUT OVER THE LAST 2 DAYS. ACTUALLY. &gt;&gt; LEAVING COMMUTERS TERRIFIED THAT IT COULD HAPPEN AGAIN. WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE TONIGHT OF A SEARCH FOR A SUSPECT AND A CLOSER LOOK AT THE AREA WHERE COMMUTERS REALLY SHOULD BE TAKING EXTRA CAUTION. WE BEGIN WITH WRAL'S AARON THOMAS. AARON, DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA ON POLE WHO POLICE ARE LOOKING FOR? &gt;&gt; SO THIS IS EXACTLY WITH MAKING THIS COMPLEX. ASHLEY RALEIGH, POLICE HAVE NOT RELEASED ANY SORT OF DESCRIPTION OF A PERSON THEY'RE LOOKING FOR OR IF THEY'RE USING A GETAWAY CAR. BUT WE DID HEAR FROM INVESTIGATORS WHO SAY THAT ANY SMALL TIPS THAT ANY DRIVERS CAN PROVIDE CAN HELP MAKE A BREAK IN THESE CASES. &gt;&gt; WE'RE GETTING REPORTS OF RALEIGH POLICE INVESTIGATING A REPORT OF SHOTS FIRED AT A VEHICLE ON I-40 AND GORMAN STREET THIS MORNING. WRAL BROUGHT YOU BREAKING NEWS ABOUT A SUSPECTED HIGHWAY SHOOTER LATER THIS EVENING. RALLY POLICE HELD A NEWS CONFERENCE INFORMING THE PUBLIC ABOUT 6 VEHICLE SHOT AT ON A STRETCH OF I-40 IN RALEIGH SINCE MONDAY. TONIGHT. THEY ARE ACTIVELY SEARCHING FOR THE PERSON WHO APPEARS THAT THE FIRING AT CARS AT RANDOM ON THIS VERY BUSY HIGHWAY. VERY SEARS. THE INCIDENT NEEDS TO HAPPEN SOON. NASH COUNTY SHERIFF KEITH STONE, NO STRANGER TO THESE TYPES OF CASES. &gt;&gt; BACK IN 2020, HIS OFFICE CAPTURED A MAN WHO RACED UP I-NINETY-FIVE SHOT AT CARSON LED LAW ENFORCEMENT ON A MULTI COUNTY HIGH SPEED CHASE. AS FOR THE SHOOTINGS IN RALEIGH, HE SAYS TIPS FROM DRIVERS PLAY A PIVOTAL ROLE AND PINPOINTING A SUSPECT. THIS IS FOR THE COVID WITH CELL PHONES HAD THE ABILITY TO REPORT PROBLEMS. &gt;&gt; RILEY AND THAT HAS THE ABILITY TO GET GOOD DESCRIPTIONS. &gt;&gt; THAT'S WHY SAWS THESE CASES AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE WITH POSSIBLE STAFF IS STILL VERY QUICKLY. &gt;&gt; THE CALL STEM FROM A STRETCH OF I-40 IN RALEIGH AND CARY FROM CHAPEL HILL ROAD TO GORMAN STREET TO BOB JONES ROAD SUZANNE KENNEDY, A FORMER TV REPORTER IN DC RECALLS THE TERROR OF 10 DRIVERS IN THE DC AREA KILLED BY SNIPERS AND 2002. YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THEY'RE TARGETING ISN'T JUST RANDOM. IS IT JUST? &gt;&gt; FROM AN OVERPASS FROM US SIDE ROADWAY, A FRONTAGE ROAD. YOU SIMPLY NO. AND SO IT'S THE UNKNOWN THAT SO TERRIFY DRIVERS WHO USE I-40 WAITING FOR INVESTIGATORS TO DETERMINE A MOTIVATION FOR THE CRIMES. &gt;&gt; AND RALEIGH POLICE ADDING TONIGHT THAT THEY ARE MAKING THIS A TOP PRIORITY AND FINDING THE PERSON OR PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE DRIVERS CAN DEFINITELY EXPECT THE BEEF UP PATROL OF THEIR PRESENCE, ESPECIALLY AS THEY GET READY FOR THE MORNING COMMUTE TOMORROW. LET'S SEND THINGS OVER TO BRIAN SHRADER AND THE WRAL LIVE CENTER DOES GIVE US A CLOSER LOOK AT WHERE THESE SHOOTINGS HAVE BEEN REPORTED. BRYANT AND WANT TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THOSE INCREASED POLICE PATROLS. THIS IS ALL ALONG INTERSTATE 40 ON THE SOUTH AND WEST SIDE OF RALEIGH, GORMAN STREET. THAT'S WHERE SOME OF THOSE CALLS CAME IN TODAY OUT TOWARD US ONE BUCK JONES ROAD OUT TO CHAPEL HILL ROAD SO FAR THERE HAVE BEEN A TOTAL OF 6 INCIDENTS TO ON MONDAY AND THEN FOR REPORTED THIS MORNING IN ONE OF THOSE ON MONDAY, A WOMAN WAS SHOT IN THE LEG. AS WE REPORTED OUT AT THE CHAPEL HILL ROAD AREA ON I-40 AND POLICE SAY THAT THIS HAS HAPPENED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS OF I-40 SKIT.</p>

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