Charlotte, North Carolina — A 16-year-old boy was shot dead on a residential street in Charlotte's University City area on Sunday night, and by Monday police had charged two people — a 20-year-old man and a 17-year-old — with murder and felony conspiracy, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) said.

Source: Charlotte Focal / Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department

What happened on Ragsdale Drive

Police say the shooting happened shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 8, in the 5000 block of Ragsdale Drive in northeast Charlotte, near Johnston Oehler Road and Prosperity Ridge Road. Officers first treated the call as an assault with a deadly weapon, according to dispatch-based reporting of the incident.

Arriving officers found the boy with a gunshot wound to the head, initially unconscious, and crime-scene staff coordinated with the hospital as he was taken to CMC Main — Carolinas Medical Center — rather than another facility, the dispatch timeline records. He later died at the hospital, and CMPD said the investigation became a homicide case in its University City Division.

Source: CrimeRadar timeline of CMPD and dispatch reports

The arrests announced on Monday

On Monday, November 9, CMPD officials said detectives had identified two suspects. Michael Currie II, 20, has been arrested and charged with murder and felony conspiracy, police said. A second suspect, aged 17, faces the same charges; that suspect's name was not released because of juvenile status, police said.

The charges are allegations. Neither suspect has been convicted, and both are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in court. Police have not announced a court date in the reports released so far.

What police have not said

No further details about the circumstances of the shooting, including a possible motive, have been made public, CMPD said. Dispatch traffic on Sunday night referred to officers following suspect-vehicle leads near Prosperity Ridge, Johnson Road and a nearby 7-Eleven, but police have not confirmed any of those early leads as part of the case against the two people charged.

Because the victim was 16, this report follows the newsroom's minor-safety rule and does not name him, even though police identified him to local media. The same protection applies to the 17-year-old suspect, who is also a minor.

University City, and what happens next

University City is the CMPD division covering Charlotte's northeast side, an area of subdivisions, shopping corridors and the university district. A teenager's death on a quiet residential block — and arrests within about a day — will now move into Mecklenburg County's courts, where prosecutors must prove the murder and conspiracy charges, and where the juvenile suspect's case is handled under the rules that apply to minors.

CMPD says the investigation is active and ongoing. Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Charlotte-Mecklenburg police homicide detectives or Charlotte Crime Stoppers, police said.

Source: Charlotte Focal / Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department