CMPD: Mother of 4 shot after interrupting robbery outside home

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police are looking for the person they said shot a mother of four in the leg early Friday morning in east Charlotte.

Officers responded to the scene just before 5 a.m. on Anderson Street, off Sugar Creek Road. When they arrived they found the woman with a gunshot wound to the leg.

She was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

Detectives told Channel 9 that the brother of the man who lives in the house was sleeping in his car in the driveway. The homeowner's wife woke up to get ready for work when she reported hearing a commotion outside.

I've learned a mother of four was shot outside her house after witnessing the robbery. The gunman was targeting her brother-in-law. @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/zCqMdS7ftt
— Mark Barber (@MBarberWSOC9) May 19, 2017

When she walked out the door to investigate, she said she saw someone trying to rob her brother-in-law, who was sleeping in the car.

She told officers that the suspect saw her and when she turned to run back inside the house, she was shot.

The woman's husband told Channel 9 he thinks the shooter is the same person who robbed the couple two weeks ago.

The woman's husband says she can identify the robber who shot her because the same person stole from them two weeks ago. @wsoctv pic.twitter.com/JBt10yXEas
— Mark Barber (@MBarberWSOC9) May 19, 2017