CMPD vehicle search reveals dead man, wounded woman in parking lot

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police found a homicide victim in a parked vehicle early Saturday in the 2800 block of West Boulevard.

The man was identified several hours later as Deon Davis, 33.

CMPD investigators were called to a parking lot at 2:19 a.m., where they found Davis dead from a gunshot wound.

A woman at the scene told investigators she was inside the vehicle with Davis when the shooting occurred and she had been shot in the hand. Medic took her to Carolinas Medical Center for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

Further details were not released early Saturday. The woman’s identity was not released, and it remains unclear what relationship the woman had to the victim.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call police at 704-432-TIPS (8477) or Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.

Davis was the second man fatally shot on West Boulevard in a week.

Gregory Brown, 19, was shot in the 2200 block on Nov. 5 and died on Thursday at Carolinas Medical Center, according to police. Joshua Samuel Welch, 22, of Charlotte, was charged with murder and other offenses in Brown’s shooting.

Police tracked Welch to Charleston, W. Va., where he was arrested without incident. Welch and Brown knew each other, according to CMPD.

This story was originally published November 12, 2016 at 7:53 AM with the headline "CMPD vehicle search reveals dead man, wounded woman in parking lot."