Suspect arrested after fleeing traffic stop, hitting cars in Uptown Charlotte

CHARLOTTE — Officers with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said they tried to pull over a suspect who had an inspection violation Thursday morning, but he sped off and crashed in Uptown Charlotte.

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It happened just after 9 a.m. at the intersection of Eighth and North Brevard streets near First Ward Park.

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“I just heard a ‘Boom,’” said Thomas, a witness. “I thought something crashed into my house.”

Thomas said he was getting ready to take his two children to daycare.

“I live right there,” he said. “I come outside. The car was literally on top, and this tree is the only thing that stopped it from coming in my house, right there.”

The SUV scraped the bark off that tree and took out a light pole, which crashed into an apartment.

“And I came back in and my dog was having seizures,” said John Dixon, resident. “Not one, but multiple.”

The SUV was going about 70 mph, witnesses said. It came to rest on top of two parked vehicles.

Police arrested Terrence Morgan Jr., who was wanted on multiple warrants in connection with stealing vehicles and larceny.

Morgan has been charged with felony fleeing to elude, felony hit and run causing injury, four counts of hit and run causing property damage, resisting, delaying or obstructing arrest, driving without a license or registration, and possession of stolen goods in connection with this incident.

He was also served a felony larceny of motor vehicle warrant from Iredell County, according to CMPD.

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