Campus Police’s investigation of the July 28 Wolf Village shooting is winding down, according to Assistant Director John Dailey but there are still few solutions to cope with possible gang activity on campus.

“Campus Police is working with the Raleigh Police Department and gang unit, taking in information from students and community members,” he said.

At approximately midnight July 28, a male, 22, and a female, 17, were sitting outside the Wolf Village gazebo when three people shot at them.

Ryan Alexander Barnes, a junior in First Year College; Leroy Barnes, 19; and Terrell Maurice Grimes, 16; were charged with attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon with attempt to inflict serious injury.

Campus Police had said the male victim and the shooter were members of competing factions within the Crips gang, and a disagreement between those groups culminated in the shooting.

Police are trying to pinpoint what effective measures could be used in confronting gang-affiliated crime, according to Dailey.

“This is our first inclination that students might be involved in gangs,” he said. “So we’re all trying to figure out what the implications are.”

It is difficult to know how students could get involved in gangs, or whether crimes that members commit are influenced by the gang itself, he said.

“There’s a social aspect, there’s a criminal aspect, there are really so many different players that are going to influence whether somebody’s going to join a gang or commit a crime,” Dailey said.

The General Assembly passed a new state law, the Street Gang Prevention Act, which states that county councils must decide on ways to prevent youths from getting involved in gang activity. It also forces the State Council to “review the level of gang activity throughout the state” and report back ways to deal with it.

According to Chrystal Louise Coble, a recent graduate from the criminology department, the growth of gang activity seems larger than it actually is, because there is more media coverage, and information about gangs is more accessible to the ordinary public.

On the other hand, gang activity has spread to the outer city instead of remaining in inner city areas, she said.

University procedure, Coble said, would be effective if police would walk around campus alongside with students and talk to people, instead of observing from a car.

On specific local gangs, Coble said their members are very young, and there will always be a new population waiting to replace the older ones, which makes it difficult to prevent them.

According to Dailey, it is hard to pin down gang members, because anyone could be a gang member with little effect, unless the member committed a crime.

To prevent people from taking part in illegal activity, Dailey said the community must work together.

“Some responsibility falls on the community member, to report to RAs and the police behaviors of concern and suspicious behaviors,” he said.

But the new law’s definition of what gangs are will make it possible to charge offending members more heavily on the bases of gang participation, Coble said.

She also said thinks that the incident of July 28 is not necessarily a strong indicator of further gang activity on campus.

News Editor Chris Allred contributed to this story