CONCORD — A suspect in a Charlotte stabbing was fatally shot this morning by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officer at the end of a chase through two counties.
The incident began this morning as Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police searched in northeast Charlotte for a man they suspected of the earlier stabbing of a woman in east Charlotte.
At some point, officers got out of their cars, and the man jumped into one of the police cruisers and drove away.
Police chased the man into Cabarrus County. The chase ended when Cabarrus County Sheriff’s Department officials put stop sticks in the road and the man wrecked the cruiser near the intersection of N.C. 49 and U.S. 601 in Concord.
Officers from both agencies and the State Bureau of Investigation boxed the man in with their cars and approached the stolen police cruiser with their weapons drawn.
“He was brandishing a knife at that point,”Cabarrus County Sheriff Brad Riley said.
The officers sprayed the man with pepper spray, but he put the cruiser into drive and attempted to pull forward, nearly pinning two officers between the cars.
Another local law enforcement official said a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officer then shot the man. Riley wouldn’t confirm the agency of the officer who shot the man because the State Bureau of Investigation is investigating. But he said only one officer fired shots.
A NorthEast Medical Center spokeswoman said the man was brought to the emergency room in critical condition around 9:30 a.m., shortly after the shooting.
He died a short time later. The man’s name and further details were unavailable this morning.
The woman police say the man stabbed was in surgery this morning at Carolinas Medical Center. Her name was unavailable.
Contact Scott Jenkins at 704-797-4248 or sjenkins@salisburypost.com
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