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CMPD investigating two deadly shootings in Charlotte

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police are investigating two deadly shootings — one Sunday night in north Charlotte and another Monday morning near SouthPark. Police say they responded to an assault call around 7 p.m. Sunday at a shopping center on Beatties Ford Road, where they found a man inside a business with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene. CMPD says the victim was not an employee.

No information on the circumstances or any suspect has been released. Police are asking anyone with information to call the tip line at 704-432-8477.

Monday morning, CMPD said it’s investigating another deadly shooting on Barclay Downs Drive near SouthPark mall. The shooting happened at an apartment complex just after 7 a.m. Police found a woman dead at the scene. No other information has been released.

Woody is a Charlotte native who came to WFAE from the world of NASCAR where he was host of NASCAR Today for MRN Radio as well as a pit reporter, turn announcer and host of the NASCAR Live pre race show for Cup Series races. Before that, he was a news anchor at WBT radio in Charlotte, a traffic reporter, editor of The Charlotte Observer’s University City Magazine, News/Sports Director at WEGO-AM in Concord and a Swiss Army knife in local cable television. His first job after graduating from Appalachian State University was news reporter at The Daily Independent in Kannapolis. Along the way he’s covered everything from murder trials and a national political convention to high school sports and minor league baseball.