Suspect arrested after 4th of July shooting of teen near South End, CMPD says

This story was updated Wednesday, July 7:

Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of a 16-year-old near Charlotte’s South End neighborhood.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police detectives on Wednesday charged 30-year-old Dashawn Rorie in the death of Travell Moore.

The shooting occurred shortly after 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the 2600 block of South Boulevard, police said in a news release.

Officers responded to a call of an assault with a deadly weapon with serious injury and found Moore with a gunshot wound, CMPD said. Moore was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died Monday.

Rorie is charged with murder, shooting into an occupied vehicle and assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill.

Anyone with information about the shooting should call CMPD at 704-432-8477 or Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.

This story was originally published July 4, 2021 at 6:42 PM.

Cailyn Derickson

The Herald

Cailyn Derickson is a city government and politics reporter for The Herald, covering York, Chester and Lancaster counties. Cailyn graduated from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has previously worked at The Pilot and The News and Observer.