Uptown chaos leaves 1 dead
Second person wounded in gunfire. Police in riot gear arrest 70 people two hours after Speed Street ends.
One person was fatally shot and another wounded early Sunday after several hours of trouble in uptown Charlotte that ended with police in riot gear trying to break up crowds and making 70 arrests.
The shootings took place shortly after 1 a.m. across 3rd Street from the Hilton hotel, two hours after Food Lion Speed Street had closed. Antwan Terrell Smith, 22, was shot in the head and died at the scene. Durante Kavon James, also 22, was shot in the leg and taken to Carolinas Medical Center, where he was in stable condition late Sunday.
The gunfire followed reports of unrest - which police say could be gang-related - centered largely around the Charlotte Transit Center between 4th and Trade streets. The charges were one of the city's largest mass arrests in memory.
The trouble comes 15 months before Charlotte hosts the 2012 Democratic National Convention - which likely will ensure close scrutiny of what happened.
Can't keep 'em quiet unless you feed 'em, Baracky, and give 'em jobs. That's the thing about a promise: you have to pretend at least to try to keep it. The 'Community Organized' are the neediest people in the world, and need constant attention and, you know, hands-on treatment. Setting up a few barricades and installing a million Law Enforcement Officers isn't going to work forever.
2012 in Charlotte. Should be quite the affair.
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