Happened and how the witnesses are reacting. And the coal ash cleanup is underway. An update on the process, plus the complaints that some of the neighbors of these ponds have. Now its easier to figure out where to go. And getting a ride at u. S. And iran to reach port just got easier. Lyft and uber have a place at the terminal. Details on how it works coming upping. Thank youup. First of fox tonight, the Charlottemecklenburg Police Department is investigating one of its own, this after the cell phone footage of caught showing a officer repeatedly punching a suspect that the Department Says he are cysting working on it all evening and joins us outside of police headquarters. Hi, david. I had, kayla. They said this started when the hands away from police when they tried to handcuff him, the man was arrested, but cmpd has another case its looking into. Eight offenses, one suspect, seven punches thrown by a cmpd officer, thats what this video appears to show. Its the arrest of a hit and r
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
Valley, harmony, stoney point, we might have a black ice situation overnight t. Rainfall is still coming down in charlotte. Its less than it was. Heavier out to the east. Now pushing making more progress up to the east. And norwood, thats going to be the next spot between now and midnight. Were finally starting to see the edge of this rain move on and advance a little more, so that will be moving on orrnight and on overnight. But with these temperatures dropping down, we are going to fall down to or below freezing just north of charlotte. The areas i would be concerned about a hard freeze will be in upper iron dale county. It is not our first brush in with freezing temperatures over the next couple days. One coming up. Meteorologist christine will be tracking the temperatures overnight. A gunman is still on the run after a former cmd dispatcher was found shot in charlotte. He was near businesses and restaurants. Today Eyewitness News reporter elsa gillis talked to neighbors about the f
Ponds is safe. Duke has delivered bottled water to those residents to the residents. They now said its within the federal standards. Anybody would understand how confused that community is to get a letter saying dont drink your water and then have a year of fear and frustration about not being able to use your water and then to get a letter that its fine. Today duke told us it does not believe coal ash ponds had any impact on well weather quality. Friday neighbors in belmont near dukes allen steam station gathered to call on the governor to make their well water safe. They said they dont trust the state waters because nobody retested their water. Count on channel 9 to follow the controversy today starts at 5 00 on Eyewitness News. This midday investigators are still trying to figure who killed a former dispatcher. His Eyewitness News reporter mark becker has been asking community mourns. I checked with police this morning and they said they dont anticipate releasing new information at