Family asking for answers after grandmother shot, killed

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The kids on Bus 1937 Friday afternoon came home to a neighborhood wrapped in crime tape and uncertainty since family members found Sacore Gray, 49, shot in her bedroom.

"It's just kind of hard right now," said son Rodney Gray.

Rodney Gray seemed to be still in shock as he told Channel 9 about his mother, the woman who cradled his baby daughter and smiled as grandmothers do.

"I haven't asked myself why yet. But it happened. It is what it is. I have no say-so," Rodney Gray said.

"Right now, they have no leads as to who could've done this, whether if it was someone that she knew or if it was a stranger, we have no idea," said Capt. Gerald Smith with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.

Smith said detectives spoke with family members who were in the house with Gray overnight, including Gray's son and her 5-year-old granddaughter.

While on the streets, a community looked for answers -- starting with themselves.

"She was well known, and for someone to go in and shoot her and swear that nothing was seen, that nobody saw nothing. That's just a bunch of bull," said Andrea Long, who has been involved in a homicide support group since her own teenage sons were slain five years ago.

She says it is time for neighbors to speak up to overcome the fear of what some call "snitching."

"We need to have a funeral for 'no snitching.' We need to have a funeral for it because I'm sick of it, I'm just so sick of it," Long said.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call 704-432-TIPS and speak directly to a homicide detective.

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