Chief Chuck Hasty said this afternoon police are not releasing the name of the crash victim or the name of a shooting victim who crashed into the vehicle of the person who died. “It's still ongoing until all the facts are gathered. We're working all leads. We've got detectives working on it now. We have promising leads on identifying the suspect.”

The events leading up to the crash began around 5 p.m. after police received a report of a shooting in the area outside a barbershop in the Forest Hills Shopping Center, police said Saturday evening.

The shooting victim, who was shot once, fled the area and was heading down Tenth Street when the collision occurred.

This morning a team of state Highway Patrol troopers along with Sergeant Richard White of the Roanoke Rapids Police Department were photographing the crash site and were expected to hand the photos over to a Highway Patrol reconstruction team to help investigators determine several different factors in the crash.

Troopers at the scene estimated the shooting victim was traveling at a high rate of speed, at least 80 miles per hour, if not more, when the collision occurred.

Anyone with information on the shooting is encouraged to call Crimestoppers at 252-583-4444.