Shots Fired While Police Respond To Overnight Shooting In Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, NC -- A late night shooting in Charlotte Monday evening left one man dead in a street, one man shot in the leg and police and reporters scrambling for cover as more shots rang out at the crime scene.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police responded to a call around 10 p.m., May 29, and found Daveon Antonio Andrews, 18, lying in the intersection of Rozzelles Ferry Road and Oregon Street, dead from a gunshot wound. A second gunshot victim was found at the Fast Stop convenience store about a block away, police say. He had a non-life threatening gun shot wound in his leg and was taken to Carolinas Medical Center.

While officers were processing the crime scene, however, more shots were fired from a nearby location. No one was injured and CMPD said it was not immediately known if the shooting was related to the homicide or directed at someone specific.

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Local television news crews on the scene responding to the initial homicide call were caught up in the follow-up shooting, which sounded like about a dozen shots fired, according to Fox 46 reporter David Sentendrey. “I was getting into my car when gun went off about a dozen times. Felt very close, maybe 20 yards,” he tweeted. “So close to shooting, I ran passed officers coming to scene. Guns drawn, pointed at me, yelling to get down, maybe thinking I was shooter,” he later said.

CMPD’s Homicide unit continues to investigate this case, and are attempting to establish whether or not the victims and suspects knew each other, as well as motives. They ask that anyone with information about this case call Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.

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