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Three people injured after fight at Big Ed's restaurant in Raleigh, shots fired [video, but guess first]
WRAL ^ | 5/12/2025 | Staff

Posted on 05/12/2025 1:22:36 PM PDT by simpson96

Three people were injured Sunday when a fight broke out and shots were fired at Big Ed's restaurant off Falls of Neuse Road in Raleigh.

Around 11:50 a.m., officers with the Raleigh Police Department responded to a report of shots fired at Big Ed's in the 5000 block of Falls of Neuse Road.

Police said a fight broke out and shots were fired. Two people were transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries related to the fight, and a third person suffered a graze wound.

At 12:45 p.m., police said there was no active threat to the community, and no arrests have been made.

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"People were punching, hitting and throwing chairs and hitting people with chairs," said Amanda Lewis, a customer who was at the restaurant when the fight started. "Next thing you know, here goes the shots being fired.

In video a witness sent to WRAL News, a man pulled out what appeared to be a gun as the fight broke out and fired three shots at the ground. Shortly after the shots were fired, the man punched a woman in the face.

Lewis said she was in the restaurant with a group of 10 people, along with her husband and two children and said her daughter left her shoes inside the restaurant as she and other customers ran out.

"It's nerve wracking," she said.

One man told WRAL News he brought his grandchildren to Big Ed's after church only to be met by chaos.

"I said, 'Not again.' I get up in the morning and I listen to the news, I go to bed at night and listen to the news, [and hear about shootings] in Raleigh, Durham and Fayetteville."

The reported shooting took place during a time when many people were out celebrating Mother's Day,

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To: RoosterRedux

Fighting over who pays the tip for the server I bet.


21 posted on 05/12/2025 1:53:49 PM PDT by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: RoosterRedux
The woman interviewed in the film clip made this profound comment: "That's just not how Mother's Day should be."

Depends on whether one is a mother, or one is a mother, IYKWIM.

22 posted on 05/12/2025 1:54:12 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

Heheh. Gotcha.


23 posted on 05/12/2025 1:57:12 PM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: stevio

That’s right.


24 posted on 05/12/2025 2:01:33 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: DownInFlames

It’s them again, Yogi.


25 posted on 05/12/2025 2:02:00 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: simpson96

Big Ed Mustafa?
“Dirty Harry”


26 posted on 05/12/2025 2:03:38 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: V_TWIN

It’s about time some white people started representing the other side of the violent crime statistics!


27 posted on 05/12/2025 2:05:08 PM PDT by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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To: Antihero101607

As usual.


28 posted on 05/12/2025 2:05:10 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: simpson96

After the bullets came out that should have cleared up any doubt that it was a gun


29 posted on 05/12/2025 2:13:08 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: simpson96
My husband grabbed myself...

People talk like this because they think it sounds smart.

30 posted on 05/12/2025 2:38:06 PM PDT by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: V_TWIN

You’re a liar. (and a troll?)


31 posted on 05/12/2025 2:45:57 PM PDT by BB62
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To: V_TWIN

Look again


32 posted on 05/12/2025 4:04:45 PM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: V_TWIN

“It’s white people”

Stepped in it, dimwit.


33 posted on 05/12/2025 4:24:01 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: simpson96

Who doesn’t like a good pew pew after a delicious filling meal?

There’s a law against that?


34 posted on 05/12/2025 4:46:46 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: simpson96

Is Big Ed okay?


35 posted on 05/12/2025 4:56:34 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: simpson96

36 posted on 05/12/2025 5:01:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Libloather

No, he died in 2021.

< https://www.poolefuneral.com/tributes/EdwardBigEd-Watkins#tributewall>


37 posted on 05/13/2025 12:17:09 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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To: hillarys cankles

A “Yo mama so fat...” competition gone wrong? Mothers Day was probably poor timing.


38 posted on 05/13/2025 6:59:51 AM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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