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The shooting in Raleigh was the latest reminder of rampant gun violence across the country, including mass shootings at a supermarket in Buffalo that left 10 dead in May, another in May at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, that killed 19 children and two teachers, and another shooting at a Fourth of July celebration in Highland Park, Ill., that left seven dead.

Just a day earlier, two police officers were killed and a third was wounded in Connecticut in what the authorities described as an ambush after responding to a 911 call that may have been a hoax.

Thursday’s shooting was the deadliest shooting in North Carolina in 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archive. In 2009, a gunman opened fire at a nursing home in Carthage, N.C., killing seven elderly patients and a nurse and injuring several other people, including a police officer.

On Thursday, neighbors struggled to make sense of the Raleigh shooting.

Anne Berry, 52, who has lived in the Avington Place neighborhood of Raleigh for more than 20 years, said helicopters had intermittently been hovering above her home for more than three hours and that it was “loud enough to feel in your chest when they get close.”

A neighbor recounted to her that when he went to walk his dog, an officer stopped and asked him if he had seen anyone dressed in camouflage and then told him to head back inside, Ms. Berry said.

Another neighbor, Brad Redd, who has lived in the area for four years, described Hedingham as a multicultural and economically diverse place with a lake and a golf course. He said he was “flabbergasted” by the shooting.

“This is the last thing I would expect over here,” he said, adding “It’s going to shake this community.”