{"id":62031,"date":"2016-08-10T17:23:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T21:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=62031"},"modified":"2016-08-10T17:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T02:59:28","slug":"north-carolina-man-charged-murder-shooting-inside-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/north-carolina-man-charged-murder-shooting-inside-garage\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Justified? N.C. Man&#8217;s &#8216;Warning Shot&#8217; at &#8216;Hoodlums&#8217; Turns Fatal, Charged with Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_62032\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Copley.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"north-carolina-man-charged-murder-shooting-inside-garage\" title=\"Shooting Justified? N.C. Man's 'Warning Shot' at 'Hoodlums' Turns Fatal, Charged with Murder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62032\" title=\"Shooting Justified? N.C. Man's 'Warning Shot' at 'Hoodlums' Turns Fatal, Charged with Murder\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-62032\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Copley-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Chad Cameron Copley, 39, is led out of a courtroom at the Wake County Judicial Center in Raleigh, N.C., Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. Copley, who apparently called police to complain about &quot;hoodlums&quot; near his house, was charged with murder after he shot and killed a black man outside, authorities said. (Chuck Liddy\/The News &amp; Observer via AP)\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Copley-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Copley-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Copley.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62032\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chad Cameron Copley, 39. (Photo: <em>Chuck Liddy\/The News &amp; Observer via AP<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A North Carolina man has been charged with first-degree murder after shooting and killing a man standing outside his home early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Chad Cameron Copley, 39, of Raleigh, North Carolina, fired a shotgun from his garage into the street, killing a 20-year-old black man named Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas. Copley told officials he was firing a \u201cwarning shot\u201d and did not intend to hit anyone.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred around 1:00 a.m. on Sunday. In 911 calls released by local police, a man calling from Copley\u2019s address tells a dispatcher that \u201cwe got a bunch of hoodlums out here racing\u2026 I am locked and loaded and I am going outside to secure my neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to send PD as quickly as possible,\u201d the caller\u2014presumably Copley\u2014continues. \u201cI am going to secure my neighborhood. I am on the neighborhood watch. I am going to have my neighbors with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A female calls from Copley\u2019s address approximately seven minutes later. When the dispatcher asks what happened she says, \u201cI don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;m upstairs with our children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copley takes the phone from the female and tells the dispatcher, &#8220;We have a lot of people outside of our house yelling and shouting profanity. I yelled at them &#8216;please leave the premises.&#8217; They were showing firearms so I fired a warning shot. And, uh, we got somebody that got hit. I fired my warning shot like I&#8217;m supposed to by law. &#8230; They do have firearms and I&#8217;m trying to protect myself and my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one else has been charged, and it isn\u2019t clear whether any of Copley\u2019s neighbors were in fact with him. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article94698457.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"north-carolina-man-charged-murder-shooting-inside-garage\" title=\"Shooting Justified? N.C. Man's 'Warning Shot' at 'Hoodlums' Turns Fatal, Charged with Murder\">News &amp; Observer<\/a> also reported that Copley\u2019s neighborhood did not have a neighborhood watch program, which would have been affiliated with the local police department.<\/p>\n<p>But a <a href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/news\/man-accused-of-murder-says-he-was-protecting-his-home\/1461931\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"north-carolina-man-charged-murder-shooting-inside-garage\" title=\"Shooting Justified? N.C. Man's 'Warning Shot' at 'Hoodlums' Turns Fatal, Charged with Murder\">local ABC affiliate<\/a> reported that Jalen Lewis was hosting a party the night of the incident and that Thomas was one of the 50 guests in attendance. Police have yet to confirm whether these individuals were racing or had firearms.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, however, told reporters that no one was causing trouble at his party. \u201c[Thomas\u2019s] body was right in front of the mailbox,\u201d Lewis said, pointing toward Copley&#8217;s mailbox. \u201cI don&#8217;t know how he was a threat from the garage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That kinda struck a nerve when I heard that one,&#8221; Lewis continued. &#8220;Just kinda &#8211; I don&#8217;t know, it sounds borderline hate crime. It&#8217;s just a bad situation overall. Let&#8217;s just hope justice gets served and they get all the details so they know how to handle it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copley\u2019s next court appearance is Aug. 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A North Carolina man has been charged with first-degree murder after shooting and killing a man standing outside his home early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":62032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,262,241,216,240],"tags":[132,291,607],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-defensive-use-of-firearms","10":"category-rapid-fire","11":"category-s-h-blannelberry","12":"category-this-week","13":"tag-buzz","14":"tag-dgu","15":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shooting Justified? 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