and Defendant alone, did something that created a reasonable suspicion on the part of Officer Pritchard; instead, the issue is whether, viewed in their totality, the surrounding circumstances created a reasonable suspicion on the part of Officer Pritchard that Defendant might be involved in criminal activity. Watkins, 337 N.C. at 441, 446 S.E.2d 70. Although the necessary reasonable suspicion can be created by the suspect’s own conduct, there are reported cases, including the Magda decision cited by the Supreme Court in Butler, 331 N.C. at 234, 415 S.E.2d at 723, in which reviewing courts have considered the conduct of third parties to be relevant to the “reasonable articulable suspicion” inquiry as well. See United States v. Soto-Cervantes, 138 F.3d 1319, 1322-23 (10th Cir. 1998) (<HOLDING>); Magda, 547 F.2d at 758-59 (stating that the
holding that the relevant time of inquiry is the date of the filing of the complaint holding that the fact that a member of a group of men other than the defendant jumped over a wall and hid something upon the arrival of law enforcement officers was relevant to the reasonable suspicion inquiry holding that the fact that a group of men surrounding a car parked in a marked bus stop dispersed upon the approach of investigating officers was relevant to a reasonable suspicion determination holding that police officers had reasonable suspicion of criminal activity after observing a group of men huddled around a closed store at 2 am holding that a group of men standing with known drug traffickers who fled when officers approached established reasonable suspicion