GASTONIA, N.C. — A man was shot and killed Tuesday night in Gastonia, police tweeted.
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The shooting happened in the 900 block of West Airline Avenue at Gaston Avenue, and the victim died at the hospital.
The initial call came into dispatch at about 7:30 p.m. and an officer found Crawford lying in the road. Robinson was standing on a nearby porch holding a handgun.
Elijah Kevon Robinson, 21, of Lancaster, is in custody and charged with first-degree murder in Lamar Fitzgerald Crawford’s death, police said.
No further information has been released.
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