Charlotte police announce arrest in Clanton Road homicide, seek suspect in other case

Two men were killed in separate Charlotte shootings late Friday, police said, and authorities are continuing to search for suspects in the unrelated cases .

Shortly before 9 p.m., Charlotte-Mecklenburg police found 57-year-old Donald Myers with a gunshot wound in an east Charlotte apartment. Myers was pronounced dead at the scene, police said in a news release.

The apartment is in the 7100 block of Snow Lane, off East W.T. Harris Boulevard and Idlewild Road North.

At about 11:45 p.m., police found 22-year-old Kareem McLeod with a gunshot wound in a parking lot in the 800 block of Clanton Road, southwest of uptown. Medic took McLeod to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to a separate police news release.

Eleven days after McLeod was killed, police announced that Michael Lee Patrick, 27, had been charged with second-degree murder in connection with his death.

This story was originally published October 20, 2018 at 11:54 AM.