Charlotte man pleads guilty to second-degree murder for shooting at person in car
A 24-year-old Charlotte man pleaded guilty in January to second-degree murder in Mecklenburg County Superior Court for a 2024 homicide, according to a press release from the district attorney.
Kenya Venable was sentenced to 13 to 16 years in prison by Judge Donald R. Cureton Jr. for shooting and killing another person on Feb. 24, 2024, court records said.
A police affidavit said Venable and others in cars fired guns at a person in another car on Feb. 14, 2024, in the 2500 block of Little Rock Road in west Charlotte.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police identified the victim a day later as Natajah Demetrius Johnson, 23. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Police obtained surveillance footage that showed the shooting, including Venable driving one of the vehicles. Venable, who denied being at the shooting during a police interview, abandoned his vehicle, the affidavit said. It was later found with bullet holes in the left rear passenger door that traveled from inside to the outside of the vehicle.
