With some oxy codeine. That investigation going on right now. Meanwhile, gunfire in uptown overnight. Right now, three people are under arrest. Jail records show they all live out of town. Police confirm the trio was here visiting charlotte to enjoy the ciaa basketball tournament. Christian is in uptown. What more can you tell us . Reporter well sharon, fortunately nobody was hurt last night and as you mentioned, the suspects were in town for the ciaa tournament according to the cmpd. The shooting happened just before 5 00 this morning on south caldwell street near the sky condominiums and hyatt hotel. About 40 or 50 shots were fired into two cars and the lobby door. Security guards heard the shots and saw a man driving from the scene. Officers stopped the car and a back seat passenger jumped out and ran to a nearby parking deck with what police say was an ak47. Howard wright, Kevin Thompson weapons charges. At this point, detectives dont have a motive for the shooting but say it was n
Charlotte. Well start with that accident scene, that is 4913 Central Avenue, so there you have North Sharon Amity, a little further back to the west you have kilbourne avenue, that is the section of Central Avenue which is closed down this morning. As mark mentioned, may be opening up in the next 90 minutes. Sharon amity south to 74 would be the best alternate or norland would get you around that. Make injuring way toward North Sharon Amity, that is where the section is closed down this morning. Looking at the overall charlotte morning commute, 485 looks good running in the green, providence road, independence boulevard running smoothly and here is a live look at i77 at west boulevard, no problems, volume of traffic is light. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Now meteorologist al conklin. Al a breezy, mild start to the day, chris, a weak system crossing the area. You can see it on power doppler north of our area, there may be a
That is all that is left now. As for the road now, the dot did do a study here on speed and said the curve was fine for the 35mileperhour speed limit and did put the little reflectors up to indicate the curve. And dotels me that if the town wants them to look at it again but at this point there is no investigation from the dot just the up with from the Highway Patrol we could know in a couple of days cher there will be charges whether there will be charges. And tomorrow night we are told the community will gather for a Prayer Service for the newtons who died there and for the rescue personnel who helped them at 7 00 p. M. At the baptist church. And Police Arrested a man in a deadly hitandrun accident in east article. Peres ramirez hit and killed a Central Avenue at 2 30 this morning. He is charged with driving while impaired and felony hitandrun. Breaking news. Early morning shooting in mount holly now a homicide investigation. Alex giles is live in the alert center. We have gotten the
Split can happen. Weve got three scenarios we are exploring. Getting the authority to form our own school district. Two, splitting up current cms districts into a north, midand south regions. And the third is possibly starting our own Charter School system here. And the mayor tells me he has already spoken to members of the mecklenberg county delegation about this. And some believe in the break up. The challenge is the mayor tells me is to convince the General Assembly to approve this and he knows there will be pushback from cms. But he says that is not going to stop him from splitting cms up. Back to you. Thank you. Now to breaking news we have been following. Sky3 live over a pond where dive teams are assisting with a search on mallwood circle. Police released few details and medic says they are not looking for a person. Bring you new details. And investigators are working to figure out what caused this fire in pageland. Johnson produce on 601. Sky3 over the scene and the flames shoo
More about what happened moments after a South Carolina deputy was shot. 911 calls show how a Good Samaritan kept her cool and called police. After finding Deputy Kimber gist injured in berklee county. I have an officer here and she was shot officer 144. Harbor lake drive. The officer behind me in an s. U. V. He has her laid on the ground. Gist was shot while trying to detain a man. The suspect travis smith was found dead later that morning after taking his own life. Gist is recovering from injuries in the hospital. He was hit by a car at a bus stop while pushing a classmate out of harms way and that teen is home from the hospital. Junior gonzales injuries are improving. A driver hit him and never stopped. No arrests have been made in the case. Now to the wbtv alert center and alex giles is following another accident involving a school bus. School bus. This one not as serious. Sky3 over the accident in south charlotte on providence drive. And the school bus several police cars were the