CHARLOTTE — One person was killed and another was hurt in a crash Friday morning in east Charlotte, paramedics confirmed to Channel 9.
Our crews arrived at the scene on Albemarle Road at Hollirose Drive, near Lowe’s, around 2:30 a.m. Several Charlotte-Mecklenburg police patrol cars were blocking the road.
At the scene, officers said the area was a crime scene and confirmed one person died. But MEDIC said along with that victim, paramedics took one other person to the hospital, who was seriously hurt in what they said was a crash.
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Channel 9 has reached out to CMPD to learn more.
No further information was made available.
Albemarle Road was closed near Hollirose Drive, west of Harrisburg Road, as police investigated. It reopened around 6 a.m.
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