CMPD identifies man found shot, killed in northwest Charlotte home

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police were investigating the Queen City's thirteenth homicide of the year after someone was shot and killed in northwest Charlotte early Thursday morning.

Officers were called to a home on Helms Road, near Mount Holly Road and Interstate 485, just before 5:30 a.m. and found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

The victim has been identified as Fredrick Antwone Butler, 40.

Paramedics pronounced Butler dead at the scene.

Detectives said a mother, father, and son lived in the house and that the father was the one who was killed.

Channel 9 spoke with the president of the community’s Home Owners Association, who said he hoped police would quickly catch the shooter.

"It is a tragedy, but things happen across the nation in good neighborhoods and bad neighborhoods,” said Eric Foxx. “But this is a good neighborhood and I am confident in our law enforcement to do what they do.”

Montiece Oglesby said her husband told her what happened.

“He said somebody got shot and then he came back and said he died,” Oglesby said.

Later she found out the father was the one who had died.

“Sadness,” she said. “I'm sad for them especially for the son because like I said, I have kids his age so it's got to be tough.”

Crime statistics show very few violent crimes in the area with just five burglaries within a quarter-mile of the address since last October.

Police have not made any arrests but said they were looking for the gunman. No suspect description or motive has been released.

Crime scene investigators planned to be at the home for several hours.

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