Another White Man Apparently On ‘Neighborhood Watch’ Shoots, Kills Black Man

Chad Copley was inside his home when he allegedly fired his shotgun toward the partygoers across the street. 

Shortly before Copley was arrested and charged with murder early Sunday, a man called dispatchers in Raleigh, North Carolina, to report that he was “on the neighborhood watch” and was going to “secure my neighborhood” from “hoodlums” and “frigging black males with firearms.” State law bars police from identifying 911 callers by name.

Police released the 911 calls (listen below) without identifying the callers ― but they did allege that minutes later, Copley fired his shotgun from inside his garage toward the street, and struck 20-year-old Kouren Bernard Thomas, who had been attending a party nearby.

Thomas died at the hospital, and Copley, 39, was arrested.