A man was shooting at passing cars and police before a Raleigh police officer shot and killed him, according to a preliminary report from the police department.

The March 27 shooting happened as students and staff were arriving at nearby Ligon Magnet Middle School, prompting the school to go into lockdown.

What You Need To Know

  •  Police say a man was shooting at cars and then at police officers before he was shot and killed just after 7 a.m. on March 27

  •  The shooting happened near Ligon Magnet Middle School in Southeast Raleigh. The school went into lockdown quickly after the shooting began

  •  The Raleigh Police Department released its initial investigation report Monday

  • The officers involved have been put on administrative leave as the SBI investigates

The State Bureau of Investigation and the Raleigh Police Department are investigating what happened that Monday morning. The police department released its 5-day report Monday, giving new details on the officers’ account of what happened.

At 6:53 a.m. someone called 911 to report a man, identified as Jorge Luis Vega-Lesama, pointing a gun at cars near Ligon Middle School in Southeast Raleigh, according to police.

More calls came in quickly to 911, saying Vega-Lesama “was standing in the middle of the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Coleman Street intersection while actively shooting at occupied vehicles,” the report said.

Two callers said bullets hit their cars, including one with children in the vehicle, police said. The man also tried to open the door of a car stopped at a red light, according to police.

Multiple police officers got to the area by 6:57 a.m. and Ligon Magnet Middle School went into a lockdown at 7 a.m., police said.

“Sergeant R.A. Sirianna, his K-9 partner, Tiara, who was in the vehicle, and Officers M.L. Adams and P.J. Fernstrum arrived in the 700 block of Cumberland Street at approximately 7:06 a.m.,” the report states. Sirianna was the first on the scene and found Vega-Lesama in front of a home.

As the three officers got out of their cars, police say Vega-Lesama started shooting at them. As police took cover, Vega-Lesama went behind the house.

“Following the exchange of gunfire, Sergeant Sirianna notified the dispatcher, stating, ‘[the] suspect is actively firing at us; we have no line of sight,’” the report states.

The report details what happened next: “While still holding the gun, Mr. Vega-Lesama moved towards the front of the residence by the driveway. As Mr. Vega-Lesama moved closer to Sergeant Sirianna’s position, Sergeant Sirianna fired four shots at him, one of which resulted in a fatal gunshot wound to the head.”

The entire incident lasted 14 minutes, according to the report, with police radioing that Vega-Lesama was down at 7:07 a.m. and calling for an ambulance. Paramedics arrived at the scene at 7:13 a.m., police said.

Wake County Public Schools lifted the lockdown at Ligon at about 7:25 a.m.

The three officers involved are on administrative leave and state and local investigators piece together what happened.

The report said the officers all had active body cameras and dash-mounted cameras that recorded the shooting. The city said it will ask a judge to release the video from the shooting.