CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — One person has died following a homicide in east Charlotte, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. Just after 7 a.m., CMPD reported the incident on the 6100 block of Winged Elm Court. Queen City News has a crew heading to the scene. It is unclear what led up to the […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department detectives investigated a homicide early Wednesday morning. Police were called to the 7500 block of North Tryon St. around 1 a.m. MEDIC confirmed one person died at the scene and another was taken to a hospital with minor injuries after a crash and shooting. Channel 9 crews saw a CATS bus and […]
The three shots that killed a fleeing suspect in 2023 won’t land the officer who shot in court, Mecklenburg District Attorney Spencer Merriweather announced Tuesday. Nickolas Lopez, 44, reached into his backpack while Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Officer Braylin Brown ran behind him on Frazier Avenue in west Charlotte. Brown chased Lopez after a “shots fired” […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — One person has lost their life after a shooting Saturday night, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD). Officers say they were called to the Exxon at the intersection of Remount Road and West Boulevard on Saturday, May 11. Officials first reported the incident just before 10 p.m.; however, […]
Police are investigating a homicide in east Charlotte Sunday afternoon along Albemarle Road. It happened around 6 p.m., according to paramedics. They said they responded to the scene for a shooting. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said one person was pronounced dead at the scene. CMPD told Channel 9 the call came in for a man in his […]
Andrew Eyer floated into the packed church, nestled in his mother’s arms. There was silence, then sniffles. The hush that fell over uptown Charlotte’s First Baptist Church — a grand structure that holds its own among the city’s towers — wavered as the 2-year-old came into view. He trailed a casket draped in an American […]
Members of police agencies from across North Carolina are gathering in Charlotte on Friday to join friends and family in honoring the life of Joshua Eyer. Eyer joined the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department in 2017. He was killed on Monday after a suspect opened fire on a task force that was attempting to serve an arrest […]
Note: You can watch a live stream of the procession here. It was shortly before 7 a.m. when police cars began slowly pulling into a public lot on East Trade Street across from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police headquarters. Inside the lot are two fire trucks and others pulling in with unmarked vehicles. It’s not accessible to […]
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is mourning the loss of one of its officers and three other law enforcement officers after a deadly shootout Monday afternoon. CMPD Chief Johnny Jennings said late Monday night that officer Joshua Eyer was one of the people killed by a suspect in east Charlotte. Three members of the U.S. Marshals […]
The memorial service for slain Charlotte Mecklenburg Police officer Joshua Eyer is Friday and will be live-streamed. Eyer, 31, was one of four law enforcement officers killed Monday after being shot during a U.S. Marshal Taskforce serving a warrant on a felon for possession of a firearm at an east Charlotte home. The three other […]
Local and state officials on Tuesday identified all law enforcement officers injured or killed in Monday’s fatal shooting in east Charlotte and shared some new details about the incident. Gov. Roy Cooper, Attorney General Josh Stein and officials with the U.S. Marshals Service spoke during a news conference at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center alongside Charlotte-Mecklenburg […]
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Joshua Eyer succumbed to injuries sustained Monday while assisting law enforcement trying to enforce a warrant, becoming the fourth officer to die in the wake of the firefight. Eyer’s death was announced shortly after 9:30 p.m. Monday by CMPD Chief Johnny Jennings. An unimaginably painful day for local law enforcement in the […]