Bullet shatters 16th-floor window of Wells Fargo building uptown, CMPD says
A bullet shattered a window and hit a wall on the 16th floor of the Wells Fargo building at 301 S. College St. in uptown Charlotte Tuesday afternoon, police said.
No one was on the 16th floor of the jukebox-shaped One Wells Fargo Center at the time, police reported, and no one was hurt.
Officers recovered the bullet, CMPD said on Twitter.
Wells Fargo has no employees on that floor of the building, spokesman Josh Dunn told The Charlotte Observer. All Wells employees are safe and accounted for, he said.
Officials at Childress Klein, which manages the property, could not be reached for comment Tuesday evening.
The Childress Klein website shows investment advisors Wedge Capital and law firms Womble Bond Dickinson, Poyner Spruill LLP, Nelson Mullins and Horack Talley among the building’s other major tenants.
Police have not released additional information about the bullet or a possible suspect.
At 5 p.m., police were blocking off the entrance to the parking garage of the building from Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
The 42-story, 588-foot-tall building, completed in 1988, is one of the tallest in uptown.
A joint venture of Starwood Capital and Vision Properties sold the building in 2016 for $284 million, a record price at the time for an office building in North Carolina, the Observer previously reported.
Observer staff writer Hannah Lang contributed. This is a developing story.
This story was originally published October 4, 2022 at 4:54 PM.
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