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
Crews are searching for people possibly under debris in convert, louisiana. This is just after a tornado ripped through the campground yesterday leaving two people dead. Authorities say at least 30 were wounded. Seven under critical condition. Dogs with are brought in overnight to search the piles of rubble looking for anyone still missing. Its just major destruction. One individual i was speaking to when i first got here couldnt find his trail other, couldnt find his brother. This also did damage in pensacola, florida. Authorities say the storm left holes in roofs and flattened homes and garages. Well continue to gather more information and new video as the storm system rolls into charlotte. The governor put the Fire Departments rescue team on stand by in case North Carolina gets hit by the Severe Weather, and it looks like it will. Firefighters in the mountains and foothills told us they are preparing for flash flooding. Inches of rain in the past few days. Make sure to download the
Happening. I was shocked. I was shocked. I didnt believe it. I came home and seen what happened. It shocked me. He was a good person when i came home he would be outside dancing. He was no trouble. Now, they tell me that they didnt know the suspect tony hearne. He is in jail in Alexander County with the other suspect. Lyndsay lentz. The deputies are waiting to go through the home and execute that warrant see if there is any evidence that the killing took place in this house. Live in albemarle, alex giles, wbtv on your side. We went digging through his records he was released from prison in december. He was staying at a Halfway House for a time. And people running the homed lost touch with him. Police identified a pedestrian she is a 42yearold mary near rutgers avenue. The road was shut down. It just reopened. They have not released the identity. And mary ann collins, we dont know if the driver will face charges. Information on a pizza Delivery Driver kidnapped and robbed. They caught o
When you look at the reports from last year compared to this year we are down this year. Cmpd is investigating all four of tuesdays shootings. And the police chief said he is asking the city for money to hire more officers. He needs more officers that were raised in the communities and put those officers back into those communities. Adams says he will continue to work in the communities. Nobody has to get killed and shot. Lets stop this. Many of the victims and witnesses were too scared to talk about what they saw. But police are asking if you have information regarding the cases that you contact crimestoppers. Pamela escobar wbtv on your side. And pamela, we want to give people that number for crimestoppers. If you have anything that might help the number is on your screen. Within the past hour marty pucket, the vicepresident of the Firefighters Association in charlotte has been warned to stay away from members of the Charlotte City council. Background here. Pucket sent out a letter o
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