{"id":869213,"date":"2026-10-03T09:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869213\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T09:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T09:10:11","slug":"man-arrested-after-gunfire-reported-near-unc-campus-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/869213\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after gunfire reported near UNC campus :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested after firing a gun on W. Franklin Street in Chapel Hill Friday evening, according to the Town of Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the 100 block of W. Franklin Street around 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/98509758-2f9c-4b2c-a53c-8c26338c2810.png\" alt=\"\"\/>\u00a9 WRAL<\/p>\n<p>The suspect has been identified as 18-year-old Axel Zizumbo. He is facing charges of concealed carry of a weapon violation, discharging firearm in town limits, and armed to the terror of the public.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told WRAL that many students were on the street at the time of the shooting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hannah Mackin &#8212; a senior at the University of North Carolina &#8212; says she was outside a nearby restaurant when she heard gunshots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone started screaming,&#8221; Mackin said. &#8220;We run into [the restaurant] &#8230; the entire place is just people screaming and hiding out. Eventually we go out and it&#8217;s flooded with cops.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mackin says she received a notification from Alert Carolina &#8212; UNC&#8217;s emergency alert system &#8212; around 9 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said there were no reports of injuries and there is no ongoing threat to the community.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested after firing a gun on W. Franklin Street in Chapel Hill Friday evening, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":869214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3715,3071,3,2079,6928,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-869213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-chapel-hill","tag-crime","tag-news","tag-shooting","tag-unc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}