CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A homicide investigation is underway after one person was killed in northwest Charlotte early Thursday morning, police said.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department responded to an assault with a deadly weapon call along Park Fairfax Drive, near Freedom Drive, just after 5:30 a.m. Responding officers found a man with gunshot wounds.
One person, later identified as 24-year-old Kwandarrius De’Markeith Montaviu Howze, died at the scene, according to police.
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