Amber alert issue yesterday for 15yearold dixie bailey in transylvania county. Police in brevard said she is 54, 114 pounds, brown hair with orange streaks. Last seen wearing a peach pull over black tights and cowboy boots. Authorities say she is possibly headed to atlanta, if you see bailey, call 911 or star hp. Back to the breaking news we told you about, were working with police to learn what led to a shooting in west charlotte. A woman shot late last night on brooktree drive. Then drove herself to a home on darby avenue less than ten minutes away. From there, taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. There is no word on any arrests in the shootings, no names released. As soon as we get more details, well update you on air and online at wbtv. Com. That shooting is one of several charlottemecklenburg police are investigating. Hurt in a string of shootings yesterday. Our alex giles continues our coverage with two shootings in east charlotte. Reporter violence kept offic
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
Its a fairly busy road, lined with businesses. One man who has an auto shop here said he heard the impact. Somebodys in the road. Im checking out the area. Reporter and again, this is a look at the orange marking where this crash occurred. Police havent charged the driver. It doesnt appear he was at fault in this again. Police identifying the yearold Marianne Collins. Reporting live in north charlotte, Alexa Ashwell. Now to a developing story tonight, police and the fbi have been on the scene at this home for hours tonight. Theyre out there looking for clues after Officials Say a man and woman were caught out there burying a body. As breaking news today at 5 00, since then, Dayshawn Brown reporter he and his nephew both lived in this home. Tonight, police have been waiting here for hours for a search warrant to go inside. Many saw how it ended. This is the scene in Alexander County from the air and the grounds a deputies arrested this couple, both charged with murder, and trying to bur
The pickup truck was left at the scene. It had a North Carolina tag. Here it is, bjp1906. Anyone with information about this is asked to call police. The name of the victim has not been released. Troopers say a motorcyclist was speeding when he ran into the back of a pickup truck on i 40. It happened last night in morrisville near airport boulevard. The bike ran off the road and the rider, 43yearold luck bell was killed. At least nine firefighters were injured at the scene of a natural gas explosion it happened in seattle about 5 00 am, our time; about 7 hours ago. The explosion destroyed at least two businesses. As michael reports, some think it was a gas leak. Reporter 9 firefighters injured in automatic of this rushed to the hospital. It happened shortly after 1 00 this morning. Firefighters are responding to when they arrived, about a half hour after that is when the explosion occurred it could be heard and felt for miles. It started headaching and stopped. I heard sirens and i loo
Eyewitness News Reporter has been following each investigation and asking police jenna. Erica, as you mentioned, we have been with officers at every scene tonight. But we have been given very Little Information from them on the shootings they are investigating. Despite hearing from very vocal neighbors, hoping this isnt a trend. As crime scene tape was unraveled in west charlotte, officers were breaking it out across town on the east side and seeing it all unfold left some neighbors feeling hopeless for safety. I dont know. Dont have to pay this way. Others were so scared, they didnt want to show their face when venting about their concerns. We hear a lot of shootings. We didnt think nothing of it. The hour apart. One person shot outside this gas station off brookshire boulevard and another victim injured at his home less than a mile away. He drove there after bullets the shooting, shattering the glass and cutting him badly. The scene on mcginn grove drive. His grandfather once owned t