Crime alert, six people total are hurt in four separate shootings across charlotte. You can see where they happened on this map, we pin pointed them with red boxes from west to northwest charlotte. The first one happening around 4 30 yesterday afternoon. The last about seven hours later. The latest of those shootings breaking overnight, a woman shot in the leg on brooktree drive not far from freedom drive. Happened at 11 30 last night. Police say the victim drove herself two miles down the road to darby avenue near the brookshire freeway. Police arent sure what led up to that shooting. They do not believe this incident was connected to any of the other shootings. John two of the shootings happened not far from each other in east charlotte. One at 5 30 on the plaza, the other twoandahalf hours later at barrington and milton road. Mark davenport joins us now live from charlottemecklenburg police headquarters, so mark, a the shootings connected . Reporter john, i got off the phone with po
Lets look at the mapping systems, if youre outbound, if you need to, it would be North Sharon Amity over to Central Avenue put you around the fire scene there. There you see it inbound lanes all over, outbound, one lane is open but fire trucks still blocking at least one or two of those outbound lanes there as mark said. Lets take a live look, john belk and up toward bank of america stadium, volume of traffic here pretty light, running along smoothly in center city. Lets take a look at john belk, brookshire, no significant problems. Both highways running in the green. Further up to the north, just north of noda, accident statesville avenue at atando, so expect you will find a few delays there, if youre inbound along statesville avenue, and looking at the overall commute, most of us still running in the green with a few slow downs, providence road inbound and independence boulevard before albermarle. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and christine following more brea
Milton road. At 5 30, two people shot on the plaza, one seriously hurt, the other in critical condition. Then around 4 30 a person shot, suffered injuries on brookshire boulevard. Wbtvs Mark Davenport live in charlotte from Police Headquarters with more on that afternoon shooting and mark, it involved more than one scene, didnt it . Reporter it involved two different scenes, one at a busy gas station, the shell gas station off brookshire boulevard. The other one less than a mile away in a neighborhood. Ill get to both those in a minute. The video to show you that busy gas station where the first shooting took place. Where police taped off the entire area, trying to figure out exactly what happened out there, you see evidence markers all over the ground out there. Police found a gun in a cardboard box, wasnt the only scene. Less than a mile away, a car was shot into at the gas station. That car ended up on mcginn like the person shot at the gas station, both of those people nonlife thre
And traffic on wbtv news this morning. Christine thank you, chris. In less than an hour the polls will open for voters here in North Carolina to cast their ballots in the states primaries. Wbtvs Mark Davenport covering one of the polling places that will open in 60 minutes, at Covenant Presbyterian Church in charlotte. Mark, there are are two races in particular people will be watching out for today. Reporter yeah, christine, the two big races are for president. The president ial preference and North Carolina governor. Those are the two big races that were looking after. There are other races to be decide when you vote. Voting opens at 6 30, goes until 7 30 at night. What i did was pulled a couple sample ballots, the republican ballot, Mecklenburg County and democratic ballot over here. When i pulled them i looked what we will see and you can do that, board of elections website, grab the sample ballot, if youre coming later you can know who you will vote for ahead of time so youre in a
So far authorities have been tightlipped. The spi is investigating this case. Today a Virginia Police officer shot and killed on her very first day on the job was laid to rest. Officer ashley guindom was one of three officers shot responding to a Domestic Violence call. The other two officers are expected to survive, but look at that huge outpouring for her and her family. This was the scene outside the home where officer guindon was shot and killed. Inside the accused gunmans wife was found dead. Her name was christina hamilton and she grew up in charleston, South Carolina. She still has family there today. Wbtv anchor their reaction new on primetime. Not my baby. Reporter 80yearold lee howard cant hold back his emotions when talking about his granddaughter. Community of Berkeley County has heard the horrible news about crystal hamilton. They say hamiltons husband, ronald, shot her dead in their home during an argument. Known by family and friends as krissy shoe grew up here. After th