CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department's Homicide Unit are investigating a fatal shooting in the 16000 block of Simril Court in the city's Steele Creek Division, the department said in its official newsroom listing on Saturday, October 24.
Source: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (official newsroom)
MEDIC responded at about 5:30 p.m. to the Simril Court call, where crews found one person with life-threatening injuries. The person was taken to a local hospital and later died, according to local reporting of the police account.
Source: Charlotte Focal, reporting Charlotte-Mecklenburg police and MEDIC
Police are investigating the death as a homicide. Authorities have not released the victim's identity, age or any further details about the circumstances of the shooting, and no arrest had been announced in the reporting available on Saturday night.
The Simril Court investigation is separate from an earlier fatal shooting the same day on High Meadow Lane in south Charlotte, which police are also investigating as a homicide.