CHARLOTTE — A fight inside an apartment led to a deadly double shooting Saturday at an apartment complex off Albemarle Road near E W.T. Harris Boulevard in east Charlotte, police said.
Officers responded to an assault with a deadly weapon with injury call in the 8000 block of Trousdale Drive shortly before 11 p.m. Officers found Demetrius Allen, 50, suffering from a gunshot wound. He died at the scene, according to MEDIC.
Officers also found a second victim suffering from a gunshot wound at East Side Flats. MEDIC transported that victim to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Resident Leanne Passig rushed home to ensure her kids were OK after her sister told her someone got shot.
“When I heard it was a double shooting, I got scared because its not just me,” Passig said. “It’s my kids. My sister, her son, and her girlfriend who stays with us.”
The apartment complex is new so Passig said she was surprised there was a shooting.
“Still was heartbroken because when they told me where it happened. That got me even worse because I knew the neighbors, but I didn’t know who was truly involved,” she said.
Police have not said anything about, charges, a suspect, or the other shooting victim.
The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.
Editor’s note: The original police report stated the victim’s age as 39 but we have learned since he was 50.
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