Five people, including a police officer, were killed in a shooting in the US state of North Carolina

 Five people, including a police officer, have been killed in a shooting in Raleigh, the capital of the US state of North Carolina.

Raleigh Mayor Mary Ann Baldwin said the shooting happened on a hiking trail where people often go for recreation, according to the AFP news agency.

Addressing the press conference, Mayor said that the incident took place at five o'clock on Thursday evening and several people were hit by bullets.

The Raleigh Police Department has confirmed five fatalities, including a police officer who was off-duty during the shooting.

The police department has confirmed the arrest of the accused in a tweet after the incident.

According to Raleigh Mayor Mary Baldwin, the injured included a law enforcement officer who was taken to a hospital but did not survive.

Keep in mind that frequent shooting incidents have become a major problem for the United States, which has killed 34,000 people in the year 2022 alone. More than half of them are those who committed suicide using weapons.

Mayor Mary Baldwin said that this type of senseless violence must end in America

According to a European research project called 'Small Arms Survey', there were about 400 million guns in private use in the US in 2017, which means there are 120 guns for every 100 people.

The recent shootings at a school in the US state of Texas and at a supermarket in the city of Buffalo in the US state of New York caused a wave of outrage across the country, after which US lawmakers for the first time in 30 years Agreed on reforms to control arms sales.