Man shot by Charlotte police identified

Armed man involved in fatal police shooting in Charlotte identified

BY Associated Press Charlotte

PUBLISHED 6:15 PM ET Nov. 06, 2021 PUBLISHED 6:15 PM EDT Nov. 06, 2021

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Two police officers serving in North Carolina’s largest city have been placed on administrative leave while the circumstances of a fatal shooting of an armed man outside a Walmart is investigated.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police on Saturday identified the armed man who died Friday as 23-year-old Derrell Lamar Raney.

Police say a security guard contracted by Walmart at an east Charlotte store told officers a man pointed a firearm at him. The police chief says the officers found the man in the parking lot and that the man also pointed a firearm at them.

After Raney was shot, officers performed lifesaving measures until paramedics arrived and transported him to a hospital, Charlotte officials said in a news release Friday. Raney was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Officers found a gun at the scene, police said in a tweet.

Additional information gathered indicates the subject threatened a store security guard with a gun and pointed it at CMPD officers. The subject’s gun has been recovered at the scene. #cltnews pic.twitter.com/AxJnFcdMRt
— CMPD News (@CMPD) November 5, 2021

The State Bureau of Investigation is looking into what happened, and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Internal Affairs Bureau is conducting a separate inquiry. The investigations are customary in cases of police-involved shootings.

Neither officer was injured.