1972 Shooting
Although the original mall has been demolished and replaced with newer buildings, longtime Raleigh residents still remember Memorial Day 1972, when a sniper opened fire and killed three people, wounding eight others, in the North Hills parking lot. The shooter, Harvey McLeod, hid himself between cars and methodically picked off innocent shoppers before turning his .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle on himself and committing suicide. Initially, law enforcement and the media thought the target of the attack was U.S. Sen. B. Everett Jordan, who was campaigning at the mall that day. It was later determined that McLeod's rampage was an act of random violence, although Senator Jordan's press secretary was one of the victims.
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