Friday, May 3, 2019
A gunman kills two UNC Charlotte students and wounds four others on the campus. We bring you the latest. Those shootings add to the rising number of homicides in Charlotte, a number trending higher than the last several years. And teachers from CMS and around the state marched on Raleigh Wednesday. Mike Collins and a roundtable of reporters detail those and other stories.
This week, the active shooter nightmare came to the Queen City as a gunman killed 2 students and injured 4 others on the UNC Charlotte Campus on the last day of classes there.
Chancellor Philip Dubois said that Tuesday was “the saddest day in UNC Charlotte’s history.” We’ll discuss what happened and the latest on what we know about the shooting, the aftermath, the suspect and the victims.
The shooting at UNC Charlotte is another instance in Charlotte’s rising number of homicides, a number that is trending higher than the last several years. CMPD says it will take a lot of work to fix this problem. We’ll discuss.
Teachers from around the state marched in Raleigh on Wednesday in support of more funding for public education. We get reaction from the second annual “Day of Action.”
Guests:
Alexandra Olgin, WFAE reporter
Erik Spanberg, managing editor for the Charlotte Business Journal
Jonathan Lowe, reporter for Spectrum News
Joe Bruno, WSOC-TV reporter