A disabled black man died at the hospital after being shot by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer Tuesday afternoon on Old Concord Road in University City, a subdivision of Charlotte, NC.
Police said they were searching for someone who had outstanding warrants when they saw a man with a gun leave a vehicle. The victim was not the subject of the search, said Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney.
According to police reports, the man, who has not been named, returned to his vehicle. When they approached the man, they claim he “posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers” and one of them opened fire. An eyewitness told the victim’s daughter that a Taser was used on her father, then he was shot at least three times.
Cops just killed a black, disabled man on Old Concord Road in Charlotte, NC while the man was reading a book in his car. #BlackLivesMatter
— Ash J (@AshAgony) September 20, 2016
Medics arrived and the injured man was taken to Carolinas Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead.
The shooter has not been named. Police have said, per protocol, they will be placed on administrative leave.
The victim’s daughter, identified on Facebook as Lyric YourAdorable Scott, found out that her father was dead via the news while recording from the scene of the shooting. The victim’s brother said he was holding a book, not a gun, and was just waiting on his son to be dropped off after school. Source
The Facebook videos have since been deleted or removed.
