RALEIGH, N.C. – A white man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a black man after apparently calling 911 to complain about "hoodlums" outside his house.
Police say it happened early Sunday morning when 39-year-old Chad Cameron Copley fired a shotgun from inside his garage and hit the victim.
Twenty-year-old Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas suffered a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Jail records show that Copley is being held on a murder charge.
Police released an audio recording of a 911 call in which a male caller tells a dispatcher that he's "locked and loaded" and preparing to go outside. He says he is on neighborhood watch and asks them to send police.
The caller says: "We've got a bunch of hoodlums out here racing."
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