Charlotte shooting: Community grapples with deaths of 4 officers

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• Neighbors recall shootout, massive police response
• College of the Canyons student killed in Granada Hills car-to-car shooting
• See The Photos Of The Damage Done By Armed Truck Police
• Fire scorches Huntington Park fire station, but no injuries are reported
• ‘We lost heroes' 4 law enforcement officers killed, 4 injured in Charlotte, North Carolina shooting

Authorities say the shooting happened while officers were trying to serve a warrant in an east Charlotte neighborhood on April 29. Three members of the US Marshals Task Force and one Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer died from injuries sustained in an hours-long standoff in an east Charlotte neighborhood. Dr. Raynard Washington, the county's health director, said he was "praying and sending light & support to the families trying to make sense of this disaster" in a statement on social media.

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Neighbors recall shootout, massive police response

At one point in one of the videos, an officer tells another, “He’s looking at us,” seemingly referring to Mr. Hughes. The officers were at a “disadvantage” during the shootout, Chief Jennings said, because they were being fired at from above. Even as they tried to take cover, rapid bursts of gunfire from the rifle easily pierced their body armor, he said.

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CMPD said at least two of the people shot are 17 years old. Several armored vehicles were on nearby lawns and driveways. A shattered window, blinds torn, was in a street, and a entire doorway was leaning against one of the vehicles. WSOC-TV said its helicopter captured an armored vehicle driving through yards and knocking over recycling bins before officers removed a person with blood on their shirt who was then loaded into an ambulance.

See The Photos Of The Damage Done By Armed Truck Police

Records from the North Carolina Department of Public Safety show that he spent time in prison in 2011 and 2013. Since 2001, he had been criminally charged more than four dozen times, on counts including breaking and entering, assault and possessing firearms as a felon, records show. The officers were part of the Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force, an operation that draws from 16 agencies, including the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and the state corrections department. “The last few days has been very tough,” Chief Johnny Jennings of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said at a news conference on Tuesday, pausing to collect himself and wipe tears from his eyes. The killing of the four officers in a usually quiet neighborhood, where a running gun battle left people scrambling for cover, stunned residents and brought anguish across the city.

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Many roads in the area, including Interstate 77, were closed so ambulances could get to hospitals faster. TV footage showed ambulances speeding to hospitals with several law enforcement vehicles in front and behind them, sirens blaring. Four Charlotte-Mecklenburg officers who responded to the scene were also shot while trying to rescue the wounded officers.

Grief-stricken members of the community filed into a local church Tuesday night to honor the four fallen law enforcement officers killed in an ambush at an east Charlotte home the day before. "We are getting a close look this morning of the East Charlotte home where four law enforcement officers were shot and killed yesterday morning," WSOC-TV reporter Eli Brand shared. "You can see the damage caused by an armored truck police used to breach inside."

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"I've been with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department for 32 years. I can't remember an incident where three law enforcement officers were [injured] and also three that were killed in the same incident," he said. Marshals Task Force officer were injured and are still recovering from their wounds. Tuesday afternoon, she stood in front of the damaged house and marveled at the destruction.

‘We lost heroes' 4 law enforcement officers killed, 4 injured in Charlotte, North Carolina shooting

The death of a 20-year-old Newport Beach woman who was fatally shot in Tucson, Ariz., was being mourned today. -- A refugee who fled war-torn Cambodia decades ago and settled in Charlotte was stunned Monday when a barrage of gunfire erupted at the house next to his. At the McAlway Manor Condominiums complex in the 900 block of McAlway Road in southeast Charlotte. According to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD), the first shooting happened just before 1 a.m. In the 7200 block of East Independence Boulevard in southeast Charlotte.

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By the time she arrived at the hospital, her husband had died. -- An attempt to serve a warrant turned deadly Monday when a deputy U.S. marshal and three other members of a task force were shot and killed in Charlotte. President Joe Biden on Monday released a statement calling the officers "heroes" and saying he and first lady Jill Biden will be praying for the families and the recovering officers. The president also spoke with Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles to express his condolences and support for the community. A manned Concord Police Department cruiser idled outside a two story home early Tuesday afternoon at an address in Monroe listed for Eyer. Concord Officer Thiago DeSouza, stationed outside the gray-paneled house, walked past three cars sitting in the driveway to knock on the grieving family’s door.

Hughes was then arrested in June 2012 after a high-speed chase. Los Angeles police officers were called to the intersection of Rinaldi Street and Shoshone Avenue just before 1 a.m. And found a 19-year-old man suffering from several gunshot wounds. Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said Tuesday that California Highway Patrol officers had arrested a gang member in San Onofre who shot a deputy in the back as he sat on his department motorcycle at a West Covina stoplight. A teenage girl and a man were treated for non-life-threatening gunshot wounds at the scene, according to the Tucson Police Department, the Arizona Wildcat, the university’s campus newspaper, reported.

"Today we say our prayers as we get through this difficult time." The four law enforcement personnel killed in the incident were identified as Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Weeks Jr., 48; North Carolina Department of Adult Correction veterans Sam Poloche and Alden Elliott; and CMPD officer Joshua Eyer. He said an armored vehicle was subsequently parked between the house and the wounded officers to serve as protection during a rescue attempt. After a three-hour standoff, the home was torn open by specialty vehicles.

Jennings said he was killed while responding to others who were facing gunfire at the scene. Hughes was also wanted for two counts of felony flee to elude out of Lincoln County, North Carolina, according to Charlotte police. They said two persons of interest, a 17-year-old and a woman, were taken to the police station for further investigation. Alexis Piquero, a professor of criminology at the University of Miami who has researched crime and justice policy, said that when officers serve warrants at homes, “they have no idea what is on the other side” of a door. With the proliferation of high-powered rifles across the country, he said, the dangers for such operations have only increased. The task force that was serving the warrant on Monday had received training in a variety of matters over the years, according to Ronald L. Davis, the director of the U.S.

Todd Ishee, NC Secretary of Adult Correction, identified the two officers killed as Sam Poloche and Alden Elliott, both 14-year NC Department of Adult Correction veterans. Marshals Service confirmed that one of its officers had been killed. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper clarified that the other two killed were officers with the State Department of Adult Correction who were working with the task force. CMPD officers Christopher Tolley, Michael Giglio and Jack Blowers were treated for gunshot wounds.

The officers were first shot at by the wanted suspect as they approached the suburban home in Charlotte, and they killed him in the front yard, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Johnny Jennings said. "After that, it was just chaos," Wilson told the station. The Marshals Service identified the deputy U.S. marshal who was killed in the shooting as Thomas Weeks Jr., 48.

"Unfortunately today was something tragic that we never want to see," Jennings said. Jennings earlier said that all of the officers are expected to make a full recovery. Jennings said the suspect used an AR-15-style rifle and a .40-caliber handgun and had additional ammunition for both guns. “This is a good example of what we try to tell people every single day that when we put on this uniform, we don’t have any guarantees that we’ll return home,” Jennings said.