Multiple law enforcement officers were injured in a shooting in east Charlotte on Monday.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Three law enforcement officers serving on a U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force were killed Monday after being met with “active gunfire” from a suspect inside an east Charlotte home. A total of eight law enforcement officers were shot, including four Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officers who were injured. At least one of those CMPD officers is listed in critical condition.
The officers were serving together on a U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force when they were shot while confronting a suspect inside a home on Galway Drive. The officers were rushed to the hospital but died as a result of their injuries. , were told to stay inside their homes until police were able to make the neighborhood safe around 5 p.m. The shooting occurred at a home not far from the intersection of The Plaza and Milton Road.
"He said there's a man shooting over there," the neighbor told WCNC Charlotte's Jesse Pierre."Man we never had nothing like this before. Never, I've been over here for 27years. It's wild man." The shooting investigation impacted many Charlotte drivers. For miles around the shooting scene Monday, police officers temporarily closed busy roads such as Interstate 77, Interstate 277 and U.S. 74 as ambulances carried injured officers to local hospitals.
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