One person was killed, and three others were injured in a late-night shooting at a southeast Charlotte lounge, police said.
Shortly after 2 a.m., Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers were called to the Fusion Lounge on East Independence Boulevard near Sharon Forest Drive for a call involving an assault with a deadly weapon with injury.
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Officers got there and found a male who had been shot. He died at the scene.
Three other shooting victims were taken to hospitals.
Two, who had life-threatening injuries were taken to Atrium Health. One shooting victim had serious injuries and was taken to Novant Health.
Channel 9′s Glenn Counts spoke with Jade Mullis who said she went to high school with the victim who was fatally shot.
Mullis said she considered him to be a close friend.
“I was inside. I didn’t see what happened, all we heard was the gunshots. They made of vacate out the back of the building and I came around and that’s when I saw him. ‘You tried to help him?’ I tried to do CPR. He was alive, but he got shot in the lungs,” Mullis explained.