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Man charged after fatal shooting, Charlotte's first homicide of 2016

A man was shot and killed early Sunday in north Charlotte, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police. It is Charlotte’s first homicide for 2016.
Officers were called at 12:16 a.m. to the 2200 block of Beatties Ford Road. They found a man with a gunshot wound in a parking lot. Mecklenburg County EMS officials pronounced him dead at the scene.
Police identified the man as Tyrone Matthew Burch, 45.
Police said the man and the shooter were involved in a fight which led to the shooting.
CMPD said Shelton Andre Kimble, 47, voluntarily came to police headquarters. He was arrested and charged with murder.
Detectives said Burch and Kimble knew each other and this was not a random act of violence.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Reporter Alexa Ashwell spoke with Burch's estranged wife by phone. She said she and their four children are devastated by his death.

The estranged wife said the two men were at a bar when they got into an argument over another women. She said Burch had recently started dating Kimble's former girlfriend. The fight spilled into the street, where the shooting happened.

Burch's estranged wife said she found out about his death from her two older children, who are Burch's stepchildren.

The couple were married for 20 years. They had a son and daughter together.

She said despite recent circumstances, Burch was a good, hard-working husband and father.

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