CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It was a violent weekend in the Queen City. Since Friday there have been six shootings, two of them taking the lives of teenagers, one 19 and one 16.
The number of homicides so far this year is now up to 85, well past the total number of homicides in all of last year.
"This is another tragedy where a simple fight, what sounds like a simple fight, turned into a death,” Major Mike Campagna said at a homicide scene on Saturday.
There were three shootings on Friday.
The first happened around 3 p.m. along Eastway Drive, about a block away from Garinger High School. The second was just before 6 p.m. in the Washington Heights neighborhood off of Beatties Ford Road. The last was on Parkland Circle around 10 p.m.
No one has been arrested in any of these cases.
There were two more shootings on Saturday. The first was on Griers Grove Road -- one person was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Later that evening, a shooting on Idlewild Road left one man with life-threatening injuries that later turned fatal. Damion Baxter is now behind bars, accused of shooting and killing a man after a fight.
"The victim was involved in a fight with a couple up people up at the store nearby and walked down here to Idlewild Road where the fight continued and as part of that he was shot by one of the suspects,” Major Campagna said.
The victim, Deontray Love, died one day before his 20th birthday.
A shooting on Sunday morning was also deadly. Fabrizio Davalos, 16, was shot leaving a party on Linda Vista Lane early Sunday morning. Police say when they arrived he was lying in the street, and his unoccupied car had been shot into.
The woman who lives at the house where the party was held says her son had a birthday party, but she didn't know the victim.
Of those six shootings, only one arrest has been made. Police are now asking anyone with information to call crime stoppers.