A 15-year-old male suspect was in a North Carolina hospital in critical condition on Friday after he went on a shooting spree that led to an hours-long manhunt and left five people dead in the state capital, Raleigh's police chief said.

Police have yet to determine a motive for the shooting, which turned a quiet middle-class neighborhood into a two-mile-wide 2 mile crime scene on Thursday, Police Chief Estella Patterson said during a news conference on Friday.

An off-duty police officer, Gabriel Torres, 29, was among those shot and killed.  The four others killed have were identified as James Roger Thompson, 16, Mary Marshall, 35, Susan Karnatz, 49, and Nicole Conners, 52.  

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper called the shooting an “infuriating and tragic act of gun violence.”

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