CMPD investigates 2 homicides Sunday afternoon

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said it was investigating two homicides Sunday afternoon — one in east Charlotte and one off Billy Graham Parkway. The homicides were reported within a span of 1.5 hours between about 4 and 5:30 p.m.

The two deaths come less than 24 hours after Pineville Police reported that it was investigating a homicide after multiple 911 callers reported gunfire shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday.

CMPD tweeted at 4:03 p.m. that it was investigating a homicide on Billy Graham Parkway near Westmont Drive. No further information was available.

Charlotte Observer news partner WSOC reported that one person was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries after paramedics were called to respond to a shooting.

At 5:25 p.m., CMPD tweeted that it was investigating at homicide in the 9800 block of Coriander Court in east Charlotte, off Harrisburg Road and just west of Interstate 485.

No further information was immediately available.

Jodie Valade

The Charlotte Observer

Jodie Valade is a former Planning and Enterprise Editor at The Charlotte Observer. She has also worked at WFAE as a digital editor, and freelanced for publications such as The Athletic, The Washington Post and The New York Times. She was a longtime, award-winning sports features and enterprise reporter at The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio. She also worked at The Dallas Morning News covering the Dallas Mavericks — where she became Mark Cuban’s lifelong email pen pal — and at The Kansas City Star. Support my work with a digital subscription