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Shooting, robbery leads to 4 people taken into custody, CMPD says

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Back-to-back crimes sparked a large police presence in north Charlotte Thursday afternoon and ended with several people in custody on Statesville Avenue.

Police received a call about an armed robbery on Alma Court around 2:45 p.m.

Minutes later, and just on the other side of Statesville Avenue, witnesses told Channel 9 that a man was shot during an attempted carjacking.

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The owner of a nearby auto shop said the victim had been working in his garage. They said he was taking pictures of a vehicle he had just finished on Jessie Street when the crime happened.

A co-worker tried to drive him to the hospital but ended up stopping just outside of uptown. First responders took him the rest of the way.

Back on Statesville Avenue, Chopper 9 captured two people being taken into custody. Three officers and a K-9 unit were able to locate the suspects hiding in some nearby brush in a field.

Shortly afterwards, family arrived to the scene, visibly upset and said their sons were 12 and 15 years old.

[IMAGES: Police take down two people in north Charlotte]

About an hour after they were taken into custody, two more males were detained.

Officers placed them in handcuffs outside a boarded-up home on Statesville Avenue. It was at this location investigators told Channel 9 the two crimes were related.

Investigators have not identified the suspects or the man who was shot. Officials told Channel 9 the victim is expected to survive.

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