In the fifth fatal Charlotte shooting since Saturday, a victim found with a gunshot wound near a Walmart store on Wilkinson Boulevard died at a hospital on Wednesday, Sept. 8, and the suspect also has died, police said.
On Thursday, Sept. 9, police identified the victim as 18-year-old Johnny Edward Scott.
Officers found Scott in the 3200 block of Wilkinson Boulevard. He died at Carolinas Medical Center, police said.
On Sept. 23, CMPD said the suspect in Scott’s killing, 22-year-old Darvon Fletcher, had been shot during the encounter and also has died at a hospital.
“CMPD’s homicide detectives have concluded their investigation and are not searching for any other suspects,” according to a CMPD news release.
Officers responded to a 911 call about the shooting just before 3 p.m., according to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department news release.
Scott and Fletcher were shot about a mile-and-a-half away from the Walmart, in the 1700 block of West Boulevard, police said.
Police are releasing no details about what they believe prompted the shooting.
At midnight the day before Scott was killed, a 3-year-old boy was killed and his 4-year-old sister injured during an attack in which shooters unleashed a barrage of 150 bullets into a family’s home in northwest Charlotte.
Asiah Figueroa was asleep when he was fatally shot, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said. Eleven people were in the home at the time.
The scene of a drive by shooting that killed a child in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday, September 8, 2021. Khadejeh Nikouyeh Knikouyeh@charlotteobserver.com
Recent shootings
According to police, the child’s death, the fatal shooting Sunday of a teenager and several recent gunshot attacks on Charlotte homes are all believed to be related to disputes among students at Hopewell, North Mecklenburg and Chambers high schools.
“Parents of kids at these high schools, what we need from you is we need you to be as outraged as we are about this,” police Capt. Joel McNelly said at a Sept. 8 news conference. “This is where your kids go to school, these are the people that your kids are around, and we need your help.”
In a separate homicide, 29-year-old Gabryelle Allnutt, who evacuated to Charlotte to get away from Hurricane Ida, was killed early Sept. 6, police said
Police arrested Malek Moore, a 29-year-old suspect in Allnutt’s death, on
Sept. 9.
Investigators haven’t said how Allnutt died.
In a triple shooting Sept. 5, 16-year-old Jaylen Xavier Foster was killed in the 9700 block of Trinity Road, in the Beatties Ford-Trinity area of north Charlotte. A 14-year-old was charged with murder.
And Jeffrey Bernard Lineberger II, 43, was fatally shot early Sept. 5 in the 4900 block of Springview Road, CMPD said.
CMPD has investigated 67 homicides since Jan. 1, Officer Thomas Hildebrand said Wednesday.
As of Sept. 6 last year, police had investigated 81 homicides, according to Observer archives.
Joe Marusak has been a reporter for The Charlotte Observer since 1989 covering the people, municipalities and major news events of the region, and was a news bureau editor for the paper. He currently reports on breaking news.Support my work with a digital subscription
