Man released from prison after 2019 killing now charged in another homicide

CHARLOTTE — Tychicus Dobie, one of the men who pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Kendal Crank, has been arrested again and charged with another killing. Crank was shot and killed in 2019 at North Tryon and 28^th streets in north Charlotte while driving to nursing school.

Dobie is now charged with murdering Tanarus Henry. Police said Henry was shot and killed in November 2025 along Alexander Street in Uptown.

In August of 2025, Dobie was sentenced to 59-83 months for his voluntary manslaughter plea deal in the Kendal Crank case. With time served, he was released seven days after his conviction. Henry was shot and killed about three months later.

Channel 9’s Hunter Sáenz spoke with Crank’s mother on Wednesday. She is frustrated with the justice system.

Her daughter, an innocent bystander, was killed in a crossfire during a shootout.

Sáenz told Linda Springs that Dobie was back behind bars.

She was beside herself because the man convicted in her daughter’s death is now accused of killing someone else months after his release.

Police searched Dobie’s phone, according to court documents. He texted his girlfriend, “We both going to jail for murder,” and “You know me, and you are (being) investigated for murder that happened to your ex-boyfriend,” who was Henry.

“I can’t wrap my mind around that. It’s crazy,” Springs told Sáenz.

Dobie was one of three people charged in Crank’s case.

In March 2025, Channel 9 was in a courtroom when he took a plea deal and apologized to Springs.

“Not a day goes by that I don’t think about that event that led to her death,” Dobie had said in court.

“I heard him say, ‘I’m a reformed young man. I want to change my life. I want to move forward,’ and I believed it,” Springs said.

Dobie was sentenced to roughly 5 to 7 years in prison, but with time served, he was released seven days after his conviction.

Three months later, the Uptown homicide happened.

Springs told Sáenz it felt like a slap in the face.

“Where’s the justice, Hunter?” Springs said. “Will we learn? I mean, is the jailhouse a revolving door?”

Dobie is being held in the Mecklenburg County jail under no bond.

Marquis Smith also pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to voluntary manslaughter of Crank.

He was released, too, and was arrested again in March for shooting into a motel.

Smith is also in the Mecklenburg County jail.

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