How police tracked down NCSU student accused of shooting cars, homes on I-40 in Raleigh

Raleigh police tracked down the suspect in a week-long shooting spree after surveillance camera footage showed his Hyundai Sonata at one of the houses hit by gunfire, court records said.

Officers then analyzed cell tower data and learned the same Hyundai had been at five of the shooting locations, where spent shell casings from a .45-caliber handgun had been found.

Warrants now show that police seized a .45-caliber handgun, spent casing and a box of ammunition while searching Andrew Thomas Graney's house on Kentford Court and his 2015 Hyundai Sonata.

Graney, 23, is a senior majoring in anthropology at NC State University.

Graney remained in Wake County Jail Friday, charged with felony assault and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle or dwelling. The suspect's first court appearance is scheduled for Friday afternoon.

Shootings on, near I-40 in Raleigh

Police charged Graney after shots were fired into eight cars and four houses between Monday and Thursday, all of them in the southeast corner of Raleigh on or near Interstate 40.

The first shooting happened Monday on I-40 between Chapel Hill Road and Cary Towne Boulevard, where a bullet passed through the passenger door and hit the female driver in both legs.

Officers found a spent .45-caliber shell on the shoulder of the highway, court records said, and they now believe it came from a moving vehicle.

Three more cars were struck by gunfire Wednesday, and police recovered .45-caliber casings at Trinity Road and Gorman Street.

Ballistic tests later showed all five shell casings matched, court records said, leading police to confirm the shootings were connected.