CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A person has been taken to a hospital after a shooting in a west Charlotte neighborhood Friday afternoon that resulted in two cars crashing into two homes.
Medic said the call came in around 4:20 p.m. from a home along Mulberry Pond Drive, just off Tuckaseegee Road. The agency confirmed the patient they found had life-threatening injuries. However, further details about the scene were not immediately available.
Neighbors told WCNC Charlotte the shooting escalated from a fight. The fight reportedly started on one side of Mulberry Pond Drive, and then a gunshot was heard, according to witnesses. The person who was shot may have been driving the car that crashed into a home.
One neighbor shared a video from a security camera showing the fight that led up to the shooting.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department later confirmed additional details Friday night. CMPD said they were called to the scene shortly after 4 p.m. and found a man with a gunshot wound. So far, the investigation suggests two parties got into a fight and at least one gunshot was fired.
Officers said the man who was shot got in his car and tried to leave, but traveled only a short distance before hitting a parked car in another driveway. This continued on and the man's car struck a home.
The investigation is ongoing.
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