Four Arrests After Murder Victim Shot, Killed In Car

CHARLOTTE, NC — After a brief standoff with police over the weekend, four suspects have been arrested and are behind bars for what police say is their connection to a Saturday shooting into a vehicle in northeast Charlotte that left one man dead and another with non-life threatening gunshot wounds.

According to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department report, Gavino Miguel Romero, 19, was shot and killed when the vehicle he was in shot at while in the 4600 block of Perth Court on May 12 around 12:30 p.m. Another victim inside the vehicle, which crashed into a porch of a home in the apartment complex when the driver lost control, was also shot and was transported to Carolinas Medical Center for treatment, CMPD said.

A third person in the car was uninjured.

Following the crash on Perth Court, CMPD officers obtained information that the suspects responsible for the homicide were in a home on nearby Lanecrest Drive. Officers established a perimeter around the home, but were forced to deploy CMPD’s SWAT team and negotiators.

After a brief standoff, suspects Primitivo Jonathan Carreto, 19; Chadwick Jerome Pearson, 19, and a15-year-old male surrendered and were taken into custody, CMPD said. By Sunday morning, CMPD had located a second 15-year-old suspect.

Pearson was charged with murder, conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon, attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon, shooting into occupied property, possession of firearm by convicted felon, and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.

Carreto was charged with murder, conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon, and attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon.

Both of the 15-year-old juveniles, who have not been identified and have been transported to a juvenile detention facility, were charged with murder, conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon, and attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon.

CMPD asks that anyone with information about this case call 704-432-TIPS and speak directly to a Homicide Unit detective, or call Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.

Photos courtesy of the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office