'Numerous' officers hurt in 'active' east Charlotte shooting, CMPD says

[Wicked Blue]

Source: WSOCTV

CHARLOTTE — “Numerous” law enforcement officers have been shot Monday in what police are calling an “active” situation in east Charlotte.

Around 2:15 p.m., the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said “multiple” people have been taken to local hospitals and an active investigation is underway.

Read more: https://wwww.wsoctv.com/news/local/cmpd-investigation-underway-east-charlotte/6PTLZP4FLFE4DA5ALFT65QDTA4/?outputType=amp

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CNN-
“Numerous law enforcement officers” have been shot in an “active situation” in Charlotte, North Carolina, police say.

“The scene is still active. Avoid the area. Many roads are closed for faster ambulance transport. Please cooperate with authorities,” the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said on X.

The incident is at the 5000 block of Galway Drive, police said, and a SWAT team is on scene.

“The US Marshals Task Force, which is comprised of officers from multiple agencies, was conducting an investigation in the area of the 5000 block of Galway Dr when they were engaged by active gunfire from a subject,” police said. “Multiple law enforcement officers have been struck by the gunfire and are being transported to the hospital.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/us/officers-shot-charlotte-north-carolina/index.html

[mahina]

1. Good luck and healing to all

And comfort to their families

[TexasDem69]

2. Terrible

Saw at least one Marshall was killed.

[IronLionZion]

3. If only they had guns to defend themselves

the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. An armed society is a polite society. The only solution is more guns.

[Leith]

4. I did a Google map walk around the area

It's residential. It looks a lot like the neighborhood I grew up in.

It wasn't somebody shooting up a commercial building, their workplace, or a school. It was probably personal (imnsho).

Edited 20 minutes later: apparently the shooter was being served a warrant and decided to "refuse the delivery."

[Happy Hoosier]

5. U.S. Marshals were there....

They were there looking for someone in particular. Seems like they found them.

[Leith]

6. Oh, yeah

And he didn't seem to be happy to be found.

[StarryNite]

7. I just read that 3 officers were fatally shot in that incident.

[BumRushDaShow]

8. AP is reporting 3 killed and 5 wounded

[Wicked Blue]

12. awful

[Warpy]

9. Serving a warrant, dangerous thing to do

3 dead, sniper set up in a neighbor's house per WSOC.

It will be interesting to find out what flavor of lunatic this is.

Looks like a decent area, houses in the 300=420K range,

(Odd how I can remember TV call letters from a lot of places I've been, memory is weird)

[GB_RN]

10. In Charlotte Proper, That Price Range...

Is a starter home.😂

Seriously, though, prices in the RDU area start around there. We have people moving here from the West Coast who think that housing prices here are cheap - compared to there, I guess they are - and they pay asking prices, or more for houses in established neighborhoods, thereby driving up prices and making housing unaffordable for everyone else.

Price creep has even hit my hometown, a college town in the eastern part of the state. New(er), two bedroom apartments rent for $1500-1700, which is what you’d pay in the RDU area. Four years ago, that same apartment back home would have rented for about $1000, give or take.

[Warpy]

11. I hope Congress addresses this shit soon

but that will hinge on getting the clowns out of it in the next election. Hedge funds and other institutional investors don't belong in things like housing, municipal services, emergency rooms.

I used to get two or three "we pay cash for houses" when I lived in my own home and that's in a cruddy neighborhood in New Mexico, where house prices have crept up slightly but that's all.

I moved here from Boston, where prices are particularly insane. It was the only place I lived that ever felt like home. When I start to miss it too much, I consult Zillow and look at rents in my old neighborhood. I get over it fast.

[GB_RN]

17. Ugh.

I had forgotten about the investment companies. 60 minutes did a thing on them a while back. Disappointing because they never challenged the asshole’s assertion that he was making home ownership more affordable. Can you believe that shit?

[Warpy]

19. Maybe after the next crash they'll be affordable

when jerks like him are completely wiped out.

Right now, there are too few assholes with too much money chasing far too few actual investments. They're trying to gobble everything up. Fortunately, most of them are now over leveraged and debt is whatt eventually wipes the lot of them out.

The problem is that in the short term they will take everything with them. If we're still saddled with Republicans and neoliberal Democrats (whose numbers are fewer now than 25 years ago), government will take too long to act and it will be a total mess.

[Wicked Blue]

16. Apparently they were serving a warrant on someone for illegal possession of a firearm nt

[brooklynite]

13. UPDATE: 3 law enforcement officers killed in shooting at Charlotte, North Carolina, residence, 5 other officers shot

CNN

Three officers were killed in a shooting while attempting to serve a warrant at a home in Charlotte, North Carolina, including one deputy US Marshal and two local task force officers, authorities say.

A total of eight law enforcement officers were shot during the incident, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings said at a Monday evening news conference.

The shooting unfolded in the 5000 block of Galway Drive as members of the US Marshals Fugitive Task Force were serving a warrant for possession of firearm by a convicted felon, Jennings said.

The officers were met with gunfire from a “high-powered rifle” and returned fire, fatally shooting a suspect in the front yard of the house. Jennings said the US Marshals had been serving the warrant to that suspect.

[Delphinus]

14. Good grief!

Does it really take eight officers to serve a warrant?

[brooklynite]

15. Apparently, so

Do you imagine there wouldn't have been a shooting if only one or two showed up?

[NowsTheTime]

18. How can any law enforcement officer support semi-automatic weapons?

This makes it more dangerous for police and for any innocent they confront.