CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The district attorney says officers were justified in a deadly November officer-involved shooting in the heart of uptown Charlotte.

  • There was an officer-involved shooting in Uptown on November 15
  • One person died and another was injured
  • No officers were hurt

It happened at the Epicentre on East Trade and College Street around 2 a.m. on Friday, November 15. Witnesses say they heard several gunshots and then sirens as police rushed to the scene. That’s when more gunshots rang out.

The Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department says 33-year-old Treon McCoy was killed during the shooting and one other person was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
 
No officers were injured.
 
We spoke to one man who was in Uptown as the chaos unfolded. He says he heard at least six gunshots and knew another death hit Uptown.
 
“I was thinking somebody just got shot. I mean, because it was quite a few gunshots. There had been quite a few people down here, and so I was hoping nobody got hurt, but unfortunately it sounds like a man lost his life, and another man is in the hospital,” Matthew Dority from Rock Hill said.

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation investigated the shooting, and CMPD conducted its own internal investigation to see if any of their policies were violated.

The two CMPD officers involved were identified as Officer Kevin Lovell and Officer Shane Mathews. 

Officer Lovell has been with the CMPD since September 2013 and is currently assigned to the Providence Division. Officer Mathews is assigned to the Hickory Grove Division and has been with department since February 2013.

Both officers were placed on administrative leave, which is standard procedure anytime an officer fires his or her weapon. 

In March, the District Attorney's Office announced they would not be seeking charges in connection to McCoy's death and that the two officers were justified in the shooting.

Less than a week prior to the shooting, a man was shot and killed in a high-rise apartment complex, and in September, Dr. John Holaday, an innocent bystander, was shot and killed while in town on business.

 

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