In boon began receiving an order of 800 tons of salt for watauga county. There has been little rest. And more snow could fall both tomorrow and monday. We will be here with the storm and trying to keep track of moving as much as we can. Reporter the pofocus will be on the main roads, leading to the main resorts at appalach ski mountain. The recent cold weather has allowed hem to build up a 6 foot base of manmade snow. It is a drastic difference from this picture i took on december 31st. But skiers told me the conditions couldnt be much better. I wasnt they were even going to be able to open this year. But the weather turned great. And they got snow. Looks pretty fabulous, right . Very cold. Slushy. With it being both valentines and president s day weekend, Hotels Across the area, are expected to fill up with skiers this weekend. Booked solid for saturday night. And the calls kept coming today. Its interesting. Because people are coming up to ski. But they dont want the Road Conditions
Its frightening and bizarre in several ways. But heres what happened, the victim early this morning told police he was in this parking lot on baldwin avenue in the cherry neighborhood when two suspects, a man and a woman came up, threatened him with a gun, and forced him to get into another car and drove him a long way to get cash. The investigation began early this morning with a call from the papa johns on Fourth Street saying they hadnt heard from one of their delivery drivers. A 61yearold man. Fearing the worst, Police Called in homicide detectives and they found his car a little while later abandoned here on baldwin street just several blocks from the papa johns store. The driver was missing. Two hours later, about 4 30 this morning, police in arch dale, 80 miles up 85, called to say a driver walked into their department off the interstate and told him hed been kidnapped from charlotte over night. The Victim Told Police he didnt know exactly where he man and a woman had kidnapped
There, the sheriff says the suspect shot one person in the parking lot before going into the facility and shooting 15 people. The gunman was an employee. The sheriff addressed how officers ended the violence. Gunfire was exchanged between Law Enforcement and the shooter. And Law Enforcement shot and killed. Again, the shooter is among the dead. The Sheriffs Office has not identified him. They say he used an Assault Rifle in the attacks and also had a pistol on him. Well keep you updated as new details come in tonight. We are following breaking news out of uptown charlotte where in the past 90 minutes, channel 9 was there as police took this man to jail on charges that he killed his 82 yearold mother. We first reported erwins since then, Charlotte Mecklenburg police have been questioning him about this two yearold case. An Eyewitness News reporter, Dashawn Brown was outside Police Headquarters when Police Brought him out. Police say there are a will the of moving parts in this investiga
Reporter this is one of many areas across town where heavy winds knocked down massive trees. Check out the root of that tree. Road. This is edge hill drive. We watched as crews wrapped up trying to clear this tree. Minutes. But they had been here for about four hours. We talked to homeowners and neighbors across charlotte. A tree fell on a condo in the will more area. It caused so much damage inside, that structure has been deemed unsafe. We saw crews working to clear a tree that fell on a vintage seen Power Outages, two gas leeks, and trees down within a three block radius. A nearby homeowner told us the impact knocked down one of the trees in her yard and damaged her fence and she described the moment it happened. He started barking. We heard a loud rustling. It wasnt even a boom. It was a big rustling. This. Reporter you can see that area right there where that tape is still blocked off. Damage occurred. She told us that a woman was driving and got right in front of that area before
About the incident which surprised them. When there were robberies at 7 11 or walgreens, we would still get notifications. Officials told channel 9 they werent told about it either. Its not known if the victim was a student but she told police she exercised in the area all the time. You dont expect a man to run behind you at 2 00 in the afternoon when youre running down the street. The suspect tonight is described as a tall black man about 63 wearing a black jacket and a panthers cap. The Surveillance Video from the Family Trust Federal Credit Union shows the suspect and the victim walking in the business a few moments apart. Rock hill police told me earlier today theyll have to go to court and get a subpoena to get that Surveillance Video. I talked to family trust this afternoon. They told me theyre not going to do that. Theyll release the video as soon as they can. Greg suskin, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Another major story that were following. The tragedy at a factory in kansas wher