Police: Social media argument led to mother, daughter shot in Shelby

SHELBY, N.C. — An 18-year-old has turned himself in a week after a shooting that sent a mother and daughter to a Shelby hospital, the Shelby Star reports.

A fight between two teenagers on February 4 ended with a mother and daughter in the hospital after both were shot, police said.

The shooting happened just before 9 p.m. at a home on Gold Street.

Shelby police were dispatched to the scene after several 911 calls came in about shots being fired.

“We just hear about shots go off,” neighbor Michael Taylor said.

Taylor was in his home next door when the shooting started. He said he ran outside try and help.

“We could hear them screaming, and the lights were on in the house,” he said.

First responders found 35-year-old Kenya Youngblood. She had been shot several times in the lower part of her body, police said.

Her 16-year-old daughter was also shot at least once in the leg, officials said.

Investigators think the shooting stemmed from an argument on social media between the teen and another girl. The two reportedly tried to settle the argument in-person in front of a crowd when Youngblood tried to intervene, police said. Police believe Zaire Ali Muhammad was part of that crown, the Shelby Star reports.

“Apparently, there’s a lot of livestream videos of it,” Shelby Police Detective Scott Champion told our partners at the Shelby Star. “They were filming it for Facebook.”

Champion said video of the shooting showed shots coming from the crowd that gathered, but not the face of the shooter.

The victims were taken to Atrium Health Cleveland in Shelby but are expected to be OK, police said.

“Unfortunately, like the case like last night, instead of it staying on that (social media) platform it turns into an in-person, and they introduce weapons into it,” said Shelby Police Chief Jeff Ledford. “It can turn into a shooting or fight where somebody gets hurt.”

Muhammad turned himself in Monday. He was charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and discharging a weapon into occupied property, according to the Shelby Star.

He was released on a $10,000 bond after turning himself in at the Cleveland County jail.

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