article_snippet: Officers were called to a report of a person with a 'machete-like' knife around 11pm Tuesday and took a suspect into custody, New Bern Police Lt. Ronda Allen said.
article_snippet: Anytime this happens in any community, any part of town, it's surprising,' the police chief said.
article_snippet: Susan Husson, executive director of the Interfaith Refugee Ministry in New Bern, said the victims' family and the suspect's family likely came through her office before settling in New Bern, but her didn't know the victims' family and the suspect's family personally.
article_snippet: The suspect and the victims knew each other, although the suspect was not a member of the victims' family, Allen said.
article_snippet: But, Chief Summers said, 'This wasn't a random event.'
article_snippet: The State Bureau of Investigation was assisting New Bern police.