Two people found fatally stabbed at different crime scenes Monday night, CMPD says

Two homicides were reported simultaneously Monday evening in different parts of Charlotte, and both involved stabbings, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say.

Both incidents occurred around 9:30 p.m., in the northwest and northeast parts of Charlotte, police say.

• In one case, police responded to a domestic violence call in the 1600 block of Ledson Court in northwest Charlotte, near Pine Island Country Club. When they arrived, they located a victim with an apparent stab wound in the home, police said in a news release. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim was identified as John Paul Cousar, 51. James Alexander Jackson, 53, has been charged with voluntary manslaughter, CMPD said.

• The other case occurred near the 2300 block of Newell-Hickory Grove Road in the University City area. Officers responded to reports of an assault with a deadly weapon. At that scene, they found a victim with an apparent stabbing wound outside of a home, CMPD said in a news release. That victim, who has not been identified, died at the scene, police said.

The two killings follow a deadly series of shootings that occurred last week. Charlotte had seven homicides in the days leading up to Christmas, including two teens killed on Christmas Eve. The girls, ages 13 and 16, were among four people found with injuries in the 6600 block of Olde Savannah Road, CMPD said. One of the two survivors was hospitalized with serious injuries.

Any one with information in the two cases is asked to call CMPD at 704-432-TIPS or Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600 or http://charlottecrimestoppers.com/.

This story was originally published December 29, 2020 at 6:02 AM.