WRAL News obtained court documents associated with Ryan Camacho’s prior case history, including convictions in California and a trespassing conviction in Wake County.
In 2019, Ryan Camacho was charged with eights counts of shooting into an occupied home off Yarborough Park Drive in Raleigh. Court records associated with the case include a motion for professionals to evaluate his capacity to proceed with trial, in which his defense attorney wrote that he had a “diagnosed history of schizophrenia,” that he “refused medication” and experienced “intermittent auditory hallucinations and paranoia.”
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The documents also mention previous convictions in California in 2009 and 2010 for manufacturing and possessing a dangerous weapon as well as grand theft, respectively.
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Camacho faced several nonviolent misdemeanors throughout 2017, including several for trespassing. He was only convicted on one of the trespassing charges. According to documents in that case, Camacho was accused of entering and remaining at the property of a Seaboard Station brewery, known at the time as “Oak and Dagger Public House.”
In 2016, Camacho was arrested on two counts of injury to real property and one count of stalking for allegedly throwing rocks into a family’s car and targeting their home for more than a year. He was only convicted on the property charges. Court records show he was ordered to receive mental health treatment while serving probation following his prison sentence. He was found in violation of his probation when he was accused of trespassing throughout 2017.
