CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Police are still searching for suspects in the shooting death of a woman in front of a Charlotte ATM machine.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said Karen Baker, 48, was shot Wednesday morning at University Plaza on University City Boulevard, near America's Best Wings and Toppers Pizza near Old Concord Road.
Police believe it was a random incident.
“It is heinous, it is disgusting and it pains me to have to come up and stand in front of people and talk about it," Maj. Brian Foley with CMPD said. "But we want to find justice. We want to find people who killed this poor woman.”
Foley said detectives are actively working to identify suspects.
“She would have given anyone the shirt off her back," Baker's niece Cortney Eckhoff said. "And I’m sure she would have given the horrible person that shot her anything she had because her heart was pure gold."
Charlotte resident Javonda Lewis said she lives by the ATM and goes to it several times a week, but now she's changing when she comes.
“I’ll never go to the ATM that early -- never," Lewis said. "And I’ll never go when it gets dark. I’ll do all my transactions during the day at lunch.”
No arrests have been made and CMPD hasn't released any suspect information at this time. Any person with information about this shooting is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600. Witnesses may also call 704-432-TIPS to speak directly with CMPD homicide detectives.
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