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Man shoots suspected intruder; crime on rise in east Charlotte community

By Elsa Gillis
By Elsa Gillis

EAST CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A man says he shot a man who tried to come inside his residence at the Misty Woods Apartments on Central Avenue in east Charlotte.

Police said when they got to the apartment complex, a resident told them a man he knows had forced his way into the apartment.

The resident said he then shot the man.

After being wounded, the man went outside to the parking lot, got into a vehicle and went to the hospital, police said.

Margie and Andrew Robinson were headed out for the day when they drove by the crime scene in their apartment community.

"We don't know what we're going to walk into, look what we just walked out the door to,” Margie Robinson said. "We was coming around the curb, and I say, ‘Whoa.’"

Children watched as police taped off the scene.

"It don't make sense, and to have kids over here (with) something like that going on, bullets don't have no eyes,” Andrew Robinson said.

The Robinsons said that this is not the first time gunshots were fired in their neighborhood, and they are tired of the shootings.

In just a half-mile radius of Sunday’s shooting on Central Avenue, there have been 22 armed robberies, three strong-armed robberies, a homicide and 20 aggravated assaults since January.

"We (are) supposed to be able to come out our house, sit on the porch, walk in our neighborhoods, walk our dogs, and I got to worry about looking behind my back,” Margie Robinson said. "We just living, we living in fear and no person should have to live in fear."

"It just don't make no sense to me because why not try to live and get along with everybody?" Andrew Robinson asked.

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