Theres like 40 cop cars, everyones very frantic. All the swat teams are getting together and cops are still pulling up. Before noon, the shelter in place alert was lifted. Witnesses began recounting what they saw. mos its not supposed to happen. Sorry we barricaded ourselves in our rooms, like we were taught, turned off our lights and just hunkered down and authorites started piecing together details of what happened. University police a male suspect drove a vehicle over a curb on west 19th, west of college avenue, struck pedestrians, he exited the vehicle and used a butcher knife to start cutting pedestrians. Our officer was onscene in less than a minute and he ended the situation in less than a minute. He engaged the suspect and he eliminated the threat. The suspect is doa. Now, officials are trying to determine a motive for the horrific attack. Im Kim Hutcherson reporting. Sketch right now. Police are on the hunt for a a little on thanksgiving day. Youre looking at a composite sketc
Skies will be clear and the a forecast low of 60 is planned with some valley locations getting down to the upper 50s. As we head into the weekend we will warm slightly but keep the highs below 90. Sunshine each afternoon with a slight afternoon breeze expected. Cool side with lower 60s to mid 60s around. Right now. Charlotte is bracing for what could be night of violent protest. 44 people were arrested last night and 9 people were injured. Including a man who was shot and remains in critical condition. Abcs Heather Waliga has the latest as city officials are deciding if a curfew is needed. Nats of clean up of looted businesses downtown charlotte. Cleaningup. After the city was under siege sot Jennifer Richards d charlotte mayor this has been a difficult couple of days for the city of charlotte. Nats flash bangs what started out as peaceful protest. Turned into chaos more nats of flash bangs flash bangs exploding into crowds of demonstrators. Who clashed with police in riot gear. Sendin
Been stabbed. His name wont be released until his family is notified. Rpd homicide detectives say robbins admitted stabbing the man. Robbins was charged with open murder with a deadly weapon. Police say they are not looking for any additional suspects. A sparks man has been charged with child neglect and discharging a firearm into a home after an incident this morning. Sparks police say they were called to the 3000 block of keogh drive shortly before 3am for a report of shots fired inside a home. Officers say the suspect in the shooting is gordon mellinger. Who has had a history of mental illness. Two women and two teenage girls were inside the home during the incident. Police convinced one of the women over the phone to get to the back yard. Where they were able to escort her to safety. This woman confirmed that mellinger had fired two shots inside the home. Swat was brought in and once they started negotiating with mellinger. He walked out of the house and and two girls were helped o
Most of the showers will stay in the mountains but a few will push into the valley and give a hundredth or two of rain. 24 inches of snow is possible in the mountains up above 5,000 feet so mt. Charleston and the ski park will see some more accumulating snow. Sunday will see temperatures climb ahead of the next system with more sunshine around and highs near 60 but another very powerful storm shoves in monday with a decent shot for more rain showers, gusty winds and highs in the 40s. Those chilly temperatures will stick around through midweek next week. Now to a story youll only see on action news. We are trying to track down a real life grinch. Laser lights are selling out all over the country and now thieves are trying to take advantage of that. Action News Reporter Yasmeen Hassan has the story. These are such a hot commodity partly because they are so easy to setup. In and theyre to go. Plus they dont need a timer. They automatically turn on at lasers light up your whole yard. Thats