Warrants indicate that law enforcement officials in Raleigh, North Carolina utilized cellular data to locate Andrew Thomas Graney, a 23-year-old student at North Carolina State University, who is implicated in a shooting spree along Interstate 40 that occurred over a three-day period.
Graney faces multiple serious felony charges, including one count of assault with a deadly weapon and eleven counts of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling or vehicle.
Prior to 5 p.m. on Thursday, (Nov. 7), Raleigh Police Chief Estella Patterson reported that two individuals had been apprehended in connection with the incidents, which were linked to a total of twelve occurrences. Subsequently, police announced that one of the individuals was released, while Graney was formally charged.
On Thursday, Graney was observed in handcuffs as he was escorted by authorities to a patrol vehicle on Kentford Court in southwest Raleigh. Law enforcement officials reported the seizure of various items from Graney’s residence, including a digital camera, a silver laptop computer, a .45 caliber handgun with a magazine, a black gun case containing live ammunition, and shell casings.
Additionally, police sought a search warrant for a 2015 Hyundai Sonata registered to Graney. The warrants detailed the numerous shootings involving vehicles along Interstate 40 between Cary and Raleigh, as well as four residences that were struck by gunfire. Court documents indicated that .45 caliber shell casings, consistent with the firearm recovered from Graney’s home, were discovered at several shooting locations.
Cellphone data used to track I-40 shooting suspect
Police have pieced together a timeline of these unsettling events, which involved eight vehicles, four homes, and even left one individual injured by a stray bullet.
Monday, Nov. 4
– **Incident 1:** A person injured, vehicle hit on I-40 near Cary Towne Boulevard.
– **Incident 2:** Another vehicle struck on I-40 near Buck Jones Road.
Wednesday, Nov. 5
– **Incident 3:** A home hit in the 2400 block of Centennial Ridge Way.
– **Incident 4:** Another residence struck in the 3200 block of Shire Lane.
**Incident 5:** A vehicle hit on I-40 near Trinity Road.
– **Incident 6:** Another vehicle struck on I-40 near Avent Ferry Road.
– **Incident 7:** A vehicle hit again on I-40 near Cary Towne Boulevard.
– **Incident 8:** A vehicle struck on Jones Franklin Road near Capital Center Drive.
– **Incident 9:** A home hit in the 2000 block of Wolf Tech Lane.
– **Incident 10:** A second residence struck in the same block.
