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CHARLOTTE — A 16-year-old has been charged with murder after a Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools student was shot in west Charlotte last month.
Police said 17-year-old Melakah Corbette was shot multiple times around 1:15 a.m. on Feb. 1 on Pitts Drive near L.C. Coleman Park. He was a student at Julius L. Chambers High School.
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Corbette’s aunt said the teenager had just signed to a modeling agency in New York and was interviewing for gigs days before he was killed.
On Monday, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said they charged a 16-year-old with murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon.
That suspect was arrested on Saturday and was put into the custody of the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice.
No further information was released.
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