Man found dead in Charlotte’s NoDa neighborhood; 2nd body found shot, police say
A man found dead beside a road in Charlotte’s NoDa neighborhood early Saturday had been shot, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said in a news release.
The man was among two victims found shot beside Charlotte roads on Saturday in apparently unrelated incidents, police said.
The second victim was found late Saturday afternoon beside West Sugar Creek Road, according to CMPD. He was pronounced dead at Carolinas Medical Center, police said.
Police found the victim in the NoDa homicide after responding to a shooting in the 200 block of Matheson Avenue, off North Tryon Street, at about 12:15 a.m.
Later Saturday, police identified the victim as 42-year-old Otis Lucas Jr. They charged Marchell Michelle Bright-Walters, 47, with voluntary manslaughter.
Police did not say if Lucas knew Bright-Walters or release a motive.
Lucas was pronounced dead at the scene, according to CMPD’s news release.
Just after 7:30 p.m. Saturday, police identified the man found shot in the 1200 block of West Sugar Creek Road as 21-year-old Tyshawn Izayiah Rodney Levar Boyd. A MEDIC unit was in the area and found “a male with an apparent gunshot wound on the side of the road” just before 4 p.m., according to a CMPD news release.
Anyone with information about the shootings is asked to call police at 704-432-8477 or Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.
This story was originally published February 23, 2019 at 11:20 AM.