A second person has died, police say, after a home invasion and kidnapping Thursday afternoon in north Charlotte.
Both victims’ identities were made public over the weekend.
Justin Carlton, 38, and Shabazz Grant, 34, were found shot around 4 p.m. at the intersection of Hoskins Road and Black Avenue on Oct. 23, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
Both victims were taken to the hospital, but Carlton died from injuries a short time later.
Grant died from his injuries on Sunday, police said in a release.
The shooting, according to police, was connected to a kidnapping reported in the same area.
Officials said Joseph Andrade, 28, the suspect in the shooting, forced his way into a home, kidnapped a woman and drove away with her.
Police began chasing Andrade’s vehicle after seeing him driving with the woman in the passenger seat. During the chase, police said Andrade started shooting at police before crashing at the intersection of Freedom and Morehead.
Andrade then jumped out of the car, police said, and started a foot chase with officers.
“He approached additional officers on Morehead Street where he pointed a firearm at at least one of the officers and the officers then returned fire,” CMPD Chief Johnny Jennings said in a video statement posted to X Thursday evening.
Andrade died at the scene, and police said a gun was recovered.
None of the officers were injured, Jennings said. The woman was also found uninjured near the area of the crash.
The State Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting, which is standard practice in a police shooting.
CMPD will handle the investigation of the assault with a deadly weapon, the homicide and the kidnapping, Jennings said.
“We’re still piecing a lot of different things together, so I can’t really say what the motive was for the home invasion, what the motive was for the shooting in the homicide and the assault with a deadly weapon at this point,” Jennings said Thursday evening. “So we’re going to try to work through that and piece it together,”
“Lives were lost, but we have a lot of lives that were saved because of officers’ response time,” he said.
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