According to police, the man was spotted by the officers in a parked vehicle.
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According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, officers were searching for a suspect with an outstanding warrant Tuesday afternoon at The Village at College Downs when they observed a person – not the suspect they were looking for – inside a vehicle at the apartment complex.
We talked with the victim’s brother and he says his brother was waiting in his auto for his son to get home from school when the shooting happened.
He then got back out of the vehicle carrying the firearm, according to a statement released by police. The officers considered the person to be a threat and fired their weapons.
The man was taken to Carolinas Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.
The shooting happened on Tuesday in the 9600 block of Old Concord Road.
A man identified by WCNC-TV as the shooting victim’s brother told the station that the officer involved in the shooting was undercover and not wearing a uniform.
He said the department’s internal affairs bureau would conduct a separate investigation, which was standard procedure, and that the officers would be placed on administrative leave. None of the officers was hurt, Putney noted.
But his family says the man did not have a gun, and was in his auto waiting for his son to get off the school bus.
WBTV reported that about 100 people are gathered at the scene of the shooting. They said he was only reading a book.
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Police said a firearm “the subject was holding at the time of the shooting” was recovered at the scene, and that detectives were interviewing witnesses to the incident. She said her father was sitting in the vehicle waiting to pick up a child from the school bus when he was shot multiple times by police.
