Control in the last 45 minutes or so. Its hard to see the damage done to the house. We know the fire marshall just arrived and determined the fire started in the back of the building. At this point, theyre not sure how, theyre trying to figure that one out. And breaking overnight, police are searching for the gunman involved in an Armed Robbery in south charlotte. Theres officers on the scene now at the kangaroo express on park road and wood lawn. This was around 4 30 this morning. At this point, were waiting to get a description of the suspect. Theyve not released one yet. Tonight, charlotte leaders will vote a plan that would lead to massive redevelopment in south park. Sharing nighth Methodist Church has a vision for more shops. Alexa ashwell is live with more to explain. Alexa . Reporter yes, stephanie. You can see there are zoning signs behind me here at the entrance to sharon united Methodist Church. And members here support this plan. In fact, just last month at couldnt find any
Live for us on griers grove road where police found the victim about 90 minutes ago and you just spoke to police. Are they telling you anything . In the past five minutes they dropped the crime scene tape and are getting ready to leave the scene. They told me there are three scenes right now and we made a map for you to see where exactly these are. They are all about within a mile of each other where a woman was found shot in the head. The second scene is within walking distance from here at the corner of griers ford and baities ford road. Thats where police are investigating a car that was shot into and half a mile up theres a third scene where they believe the woman was shot. The woman made her way here. Police believe she either drove herself or somebody picked her up and took her to the townhomes. Police say she was shot in the head and does have life able to speak with officer eyes at this moment no word on her dimension the hospital. Police are investigating to try to find any su
Reporter cornelius and huntersville unanimously passed the resolution. If davidson passes theirs today all three plan to present their resolutions to the cms board here at the government center. Channel 9 has extensively covered the Student Assignment issue. It is very early in the process and the goal is to reduce overcrowd and go break up concentrations of poverty in schools. However leaders want cms to guarantee the student will have a seat in their neighborhood schools. The resolutions serve as a strong message to the cms board and the town leaders hope the resolutions will influence the boards final decision on Student Assignment. I think people are looking for predictability and stability in their Student Assignment. And if you are not going to include a guaranteed home school, you kind of throw that reported last week matthews and mint hill are exploring ways to try to break away from this cms district. It is a move that would require legislative action. Channel 9 Eyewitness New
Why curry was in the road. Many of you are getting ready to head out on your morning drive and channel 9 is learning some of you may be more at risk for crashes than others. This month alone there have been a half dozen crashes from gilead to sanford road in huntersville. Eyewitness News Reporter joe bruno is live along that road to show us some of the issues theyre s. Highway patrol troopers tell channel 9 that there isnt much they can do because of the i77 toll lane construction and the placement of the safety barriers. Now, according to Highway Patrol, i77 is, quote, a mess of a road. So far this year, there were 228 crashes on the stretch through charlotte. 240 in february and 162 crashes in march already. Troopers we spoke with say there isnt much they can do because of the construction. According to Highway Patrol, the barriers make matters worse. There is no way to move wrecks parts of i77 resulting in long backups to an already congested inter. Prior to the construction startin
It happened on u. S. 21 here i 77 last night. Troopers have not released the victims name or said if the driver will face any charges. I will be back in the breaking news center in a bit, breaking down the overnight supertuesday results. The suspect seen in this video right here will be in court today, amid questions about the officers actions, and some say the cmpd officers went too far, one punched the suspect while taking him into custody. Joe bruno is live at the Police Department to explain more on this. Joe . Reporter we will be pushing for more information from cmpd today, and we note officer is being investigated for excessive use of force. Its because of this video an officer used and sent to channel 9. You can seat officer punching the man several times. That man was the hitandrun suspect named malcolm elliott. Police spotted elliotts mazda, resisted when he was handcuffed, but some Community Advocates said they are concerned with the amount of times the officer punched ellio