CHARLOTTE — Bullets pierced the walls of a home in West Charlotte just feet away from where a woman was sleeping a week ago. Now, police say that shooting and a car stolen from the Cotswold neighborhood led to a chase that ended on the train tracks in north Charlotte on Tuesday.
We now know CMPD charged at least one person from the scene on N. Tryon Street near a popular brewery.
Police told Channel 9 Crime Reporter Hunter Sáenz that they had to chase the suspects because of the danger they posed to the community. We learned those suspects are tied to a crime spree across Charlotte, including shooting into multiple homes with people inside.
“I’m glad they’re in custody,” said Geraldine Brown, one of the victims in the spree.
Brown reacted to the news of police arresting one of the suspects accused of shooting up her house.
“About five or six bullets, just pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow,” Brown said.
It happened a week ago along Amay James Avenue in West Charlotte. Bullets shattered Brown’s bedroom window, whizzing over her as she slept, then tearing across her room.
“Bullets flew over me. For the grace of God, I’m still here,” Brown said.
CMPD arrested Jaden Harris for shooting into Brown’s house, but not before officers say he led them on a chase.
Chopper 9 Skyzoom was over the end of it, near NoDa Brewing on N. Tryon Street.
Two other people were detained after everyone ran from the car on the train tracks. It turned out that car had been stolen from Andover Road in Cotswold last month.
That car was allegedly used in the drive-by shooting days later at Brown’s house.
“It brings tears to my eyes to think that,” Brown said.
The house was left to her by her late parents. It’s a place she now fears sleeping in, struggling with a choice no one should have to make.
“I don’t want to sell this house. Because I put so much money and work in it. But I don’t want no family members, none of my grandkids to get hurt,” Brown said.
She is contemplating that awful thought, because this isn’t the first time her house was shot into. It happened last year, too.
She believes the shootings have something to do with a dispute between her son and the suspects from years ago.
Jaden Harris is being held without bond.
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