A person was rushed to the hospital with serious injuries late Wednesday after being stabbed in the neck on Marshall Street in Raleigh, and the suspect, Detrick Hall, was arrested shortly after WRAL's Breaking News Tracker arrived at the scene. Officers were called to the area around 9:50 p.m. and found the victim suffering from the wound, setting off an investigation that remains active into Thursday.
Raleigh police received reports of an assault on Marshall Street around 9:50 p.m. Wednesday night, according to WRAL. When officers arrived, they found one person who had been stabbed in the neck. That victim remains hospitalized with serious injuries as of the station's report.
Police identified the suspect as Detrick Hall, who was arrested shortly after WRAL's Breaking News Tracker arrived at the scene. Investigators have also said they do not yet know what led up to the stabbing, leaving the circumstances of the confrontation unclear even as the investigation continues.
A String of Knife Attacks Across Raleigh This Fall
The Marshall Street stabbing adds to a run of knife violence that has rattled Raleigh neighborhoods in recent weeks. Less than a month ago, police investigated an overnight stabbing at a Southeast Raleigh apartment complex on Thoroughbred Lane that left a victim hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, a case Hoodline previously reported was still being worked by investigators who had identified a person of interest.
Just two days after that, a 22-year-old man was arrested on a Class C felony charge after a domestic drinking dispute inside a Lake Woodard Drive residence left a victim stabbed 10 times in the torso and back, with a child present inside the home at the time, Hoodline reported. Back in March, a late-night altercation aboard a GoRaleigh bus near Five Points ended with a passenger stabbed and a suspect arrested at the scene, according to Hoodline's earlier coverage.
Statutes That Could Shape Any Future Charges
Whether the Marshall Street suspect ultimately faces a general felony assault charge or a domestic-related one could hinge on whether the victim and suspect had a pre-existing relationship, an open question in this case. Under North Carolina General Statute § 14-32(b), assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury is a Class E felony.
Separately, North Carolina General Statute § 15A-534.1 requires a judge, rather than a magistrate, to set bond and pretrial release conditions for specified charges involving certain domestic relationships. It remains unknown whether that statute would apply in the Marshall Street case, since police have not disclosed any relationship between the victim and the identified suspect.
Crime Trends Behind the Headlines
The stabbing also lands amid fluctuating citywide numbers for non-firearm aggravated assaults. Raleigh recorded 230 such incidents in the first quarter of 2026, a 5% increase over the same period in 2025, according to City of Raleigh data. By the second quarter, that figure had dropped 14%, falling from 280 incidents in Q2 2025 to 248 this year, per the city's own crime statistics.
That shift followed a spring in which Raleigh Police Chief Rico Boyce called a cluster of violent crimes affecting community security “unacceptable,” according to WPTF, directing additional patrol deployments to high-traffic and entertainment areas across the city. The department operates across six patrol districts, according to Guardian Protection's review.
Raleigh police have investigative persistence on cold cases involving knives, too. In May, officers charged a 49-year-old suspect with murder in a 2019 fatal stabbing at Brentwood Park Community Center after submitting physical evidence for modern forensic testing, nearly seven years after the victim's body was discovered, Hoodline reported at the time. Detrick Hall was arrested, though police said their investigation into what led up to the Marshall Street stabbing was ongoing.
