2 dead, 1 injured after Charlotte domestic dispute

Two people were killed and a third was seriously injured when gunfire erupted after a domestic dispute Saturday night in northwest Charlotte.

Officers responded to the 5600 block of Mount Holly-Huntersville Road shortly after 10 p.m. They found a woman and a man dead of gunshot wounds and a second man with a potentially life-threatening bullet wound.

Late Sunday, police identified the dead woman as Judith Causey, 37, and the slain man as Kevin Conner, 50.

The man who survived has not been identified, police said. He and the woman were formerly involved in a relationship, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.

As of late Sunday, police had not identified the shooter.

The killings would be the sixth and seventh domestic-violence-related homicides in 2015, about double last year’s total, according to police statistics.

For the past three years, the city has seen relatively low numbers of domestic violence homicides, a fact advocates had attributed to heightened awareness. Three people were killed in domestic violence homicides in 2013 and 2014.

“We look at homicides as an indicator, and they are tragic,” said Mike Sexton, spokesman for the Mecklenburg Women’s Commission. “But the sad reality is that we are at over 9,100 domestic violence criminal incidents every single year. That’s everything from communicating threats to homicide. That’s 25 incidents every single day.”

This story was originally published September 20, 2015 at 10:51 AM with the headline "2 dead, 1 injured after Charlotte domestic dispute."