WILSON, N.C. – Another deadly shooting this morning. This one involved police in Wilson.
It began at a home in Wilson but ended at the intersection of Ward Avenue and Forest Hills road just before 11.
Police say thats where the suspect started shooting at them.
This isn't the only crime scene police are investigating though.
Police officers were originally called to a home on the 600 block of Whitehead Avenue but when they got there witnesses say the suspect had fled the scene.
They later caught with him at the intersection of Wade and Forest Hills and that's when the shooting began.
"I come to see what was going on, just heard something was happening and I didn't know what it was," said Jerry Renfrow, Wilson Resident.
That "something" was police fending off gun fire from a fleeing suspect.
Police say he had already collided with two cars while driving. Thankfully, no one in those cars were injured.
The same couldn't be said for those inside the suspect's vehicle. One was pronounced dead at the scene and another was airlifted to Pitt Memorial Hospital.
Onlooker Jerry Renfrow says things like this don't happen in Wilson.
"Not something you see every day. I can't remember anything happening like this at all in Wilson," said Renfrow.
A neighbor at the original crime scene on the 600 block of Whitehead Avenue just blocks away from Barton College agrees.
"This is the first time I've seen something like this happen in a long time," said Antonio Britt, neighbor. "You know popping off at officers is not the way to go. They are respectable people in the community."
No officers were injured in the shootings today, but they are staying very tight lipped as to the details of the case.
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