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A suspect in a home invasion and kidnapping is dead after a chase and shootout with police, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
Shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday, officials said police officers went to a shots fired call in north Charlotte at the intersection of Hoskins Road and Black Avenue and found two people shot. Both were taken to the hospital and one died, police said.
Officials said the shooting suspect forced his way into a home, kidnapped a resident and made them drive him from the scene. Police found the car and started chasing the suspect, officials said. The suspect started shooting at police during the chase, police said.
“After a short pursuit, the suspect exited the vehicle and continued to shoot in the direction of CMPD officers,” according to police. Officers shot back and hit the suspect, who died at the scene.
“Multiple CMPD vehicles were shot into during this incident,” police said in a news release. “Neither the kidnapped victim nor any officers were injured during this incident.”
Police said they found a gun at the scene. The State Bureau of Investigations is investigating the shooting, which is standard practice in a police shooting.
“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. So we’re going to try to work through that and piece it together,” CMPD Chief Johnning Jennings said in a news conference Thursday evening.
“Lives were lost, but we have a lot of lives that were saved because of officers’ response time,” he said.
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