Suspect in custody after reports of man waving gun at UNC campus bagel shop

A Durham man is in custody after police say he waved a gun at an on-campus bagel shop at UNC-Chapel Hill on Wednesday.
Posted 9/13/2023, 10:24:00 PM Updated 9/14/2023, 2:48:10 AM

COLLEGE THE WAY THEY'RE

SUPPOSED TO GET. THEY KEEP

GETTING THESE INTERRUPTIONS.

KEELY. THANK YOU FOR THE LEAST.

THEIR RESPONSE WAS OBVIOUS THEY

WERE QUICK TO GET HERE AND

QUICK TO ACT. THE ARREST CAME

SHORTLY AFTER THIS INCIDENT

STARTED. WE GO NOW TO WRAL'S

AARON THOMAS, AS WE LEARN A BIT

MORE ABOUT WHO THIS SPOT

SUSPECT IS AND MORE OF THE

MOTIVATION OF WHY TODAY

HAPPENED ERRANT.

>> YEAH, DAN, CERTAINLY A LOT

OF INFORMATION THAT WE'VE

LEARNED ABOUT THIS ACCUSE THE

SUSPECT AS THE FIRST ONE WILL

AIR AT 04:00PM. BEHIND ME IS

THE ARREST OF LOCATION FOR 27

YEAR-OLD MIKAEL HARRIS. IT IS

WORTH POINTING OUT THE POLICE

WERE ALREADY FAMILIAR WITH

HARRIS OVER AN OUTSTANDING

WARRANT FROM SEPTEMBER 5TH.

THAT'S FROM JUST LAST TUESDAY.

YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR

SCREEN. WE ACTUALLY HAVE A MUG

SHOT OF HARRIS. HE'S FROM

DURHAM, ACCORDING TO POLICE.

RIGHT NOW, YOU'RE LOOKING AT

THE MUG SHOT FROM A CHARGE NOT

RELATED TO THIS SPECIFIC CASE.

YOU KNOW, THE RESIDENTS THEY

OFFER MOST. ELAINE IN CHAPEL

HILL, NORTH OF CAMPUS, THE

OUTSTANDING WARRANT THAT WE'D

REFER TO ARE RELATED TO AN

ASSAULT CHARGE BY HIM POINTING

A GUN AND COMMUNICATING THREATS

AT A CONVENIENCE STORE IN

CHAPEL HILL LAST WEEK. THAT

ACCORDING TO AN ARREST WARRANT,

I SPOKE WITH A WOMAN WHO LIVES

AT THIS APARTMENT COMPLEX WHERE

HE WAS ARRESTED.

>> SHE TOLD ME THAT SHE WORRIED

FOR HER NEPHEW TODAY WHO HAD

JUST BEEN DISMISSED FROM SCHOOL

AS THE ARRESTS TOOK PLACE IN

HER NEIGHBORHOOD.

>> WHEN THEY RELEASED AND

THEY'RE STILL HERE POINTING

GUNS AHEAD AND GOT ME A SAUCE

FREAKING OUT ABOUT.

GO THERE BECAUSE THEY TALK

ABOUT BEING A BANK IN THE HOUSE

AND STAY IN THE HOUSE.

>> AND ON OUR LATE NEWS, OF

COURSE, ARE GOING TO BE TAKING

A DEEPER DIVE INTO THIS SUSPECT

WHO WAS ARRESTED TODAY AND WHAT

ACTUALLY LED INVESTIGATORS TO