Willis Hope, 55, was fatally shot on September 15, 2025, in southeast Raleigh. Officers were called to the 1600 block of Poole Road at 6:07 a.m.; Hope was found with multiple gunshot wounds, taken to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries, and later died. Police closed Poole Road between Raleigh Boulevard and Fisher Street while processing the scene and asked the public for tips.

Hours earlier and less than a mile away, a different man was shot in the 100 block of Coke Street at 4:17 a.m.; that victim survived with non–life-threatening injuries. Detectives linked the two shootings as part of the same overnight violence. Within days, 25-year-old Demikael Brandon Cobb was arrested and charged in Hope’s killing, and charged in connection with the other shooting; counts include murder, possession of a firearm by a felon, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, discharging a firearm within city limits, and going armed to the terror of the public. Authorities say the investigation remains active.

Did anyone in Raleigh see or hear anything in that area that morning that could help investigators?