2 killed in Charlotte on Saturday. One was found in a South End street, police say.
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2019 ended with 107 people in Charlotte killed, the highest number of homicides in a single year for the city since 1993. Charlotte’s homicide rate is the highest it’s been in more than a decade.
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Two people were killed in separate shootings in Charlotte on Saturday, including a 30-year-old man found lying in a street in South End and another dead in a car, police said.
In the first incident, officers found Jervon Sloan with a gunshot wound lying in the street in the 100 block of West Summit Avenue at about 2 a.m. That’s near the intersection with South Tryon Street.
Medics pronounced him dead at the scene, according to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department release.
Soon after the initial call, a second male appeared at Atrium Health’s Carolinas Medical Center with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound that police said stemmed from the same incident.
Police on Saturday night said they interviewed the shooter and decided not to file charges. The Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s Office will review the decision, according to CMPD.
Police said they will not release the shooter’s name unless he is formally charged with a crime in the case.
In the second incident, just before 2 p.m., police found a gunshot wound victim dead inside a car in a driveway in the 5200 block of Henderson Circle, off Old Statesville Road (N.C. 115) in north Charlotte. Medics pronounced the victim dead at the scene. Police later identified him as Julius Frazier, 26.
Anyone with information about the shootings is asked to call CMPD homicide detectives at 704-432-8477 or Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.
This story was originally published September 28, 2019 at 11:34 AM.
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