Colored folk seem to have a knack for sending white people to die of life-threatening injuries in hospital beds.

WCNC:

A man, who was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after being shot while driving in Matthews Wednesday, has died, police announced Thursday.

Brett Thomas Butler, of Charlotte, was driving near the intersection of Matthews Township Parkway (Highway 51) and Sam Newell Road when he was shot Wednesday around 6 p.m.

Upon arrival, officers found Butler, whose car had crashed into another vehicle before striking a builder.

Butler was transported by Medic to Atrium Health’s Carolina Medical Center in Charlotte where he succumbed to his injuries.

The suspect is described as a Hispanic male approximately 5’06” – 5’08” tall, wearing a black t-shirt, and blue jeans, driving a black 2007 Acura TSX with a North Carolina registration plate number of PMX-5683.

It’s just a fact of life that if you choose a gorilla for a mate, you’re going to get caught up in a lot of tribal warfare.

WSOCTV:

A day after two teenagers were rushed to the hospital after the car they were in was sprayed with bullets, one of them died, according to police.

Officers were called around 11:30 a.m. Sunday to the intersection of Freedom Drive and Tuckaseegee Road.

According to investigators, both victims were inside a Hyundai Sonata and were stopped at the intersection when someone pulled up in another car and opened fire. The suspects sped off and have not been found.

No descriptions have been released.

Detectives said 19-year-old Brianna Stephenson was taken to the hospital with critical injuries. She died on Monday, police said.

Jaquavious Royster, 18, was also taken to the hospital but is expected to be OK.

Channel 9 could see officers on scene focusing on two cars surrounded by crime scene tape and placing evidence markers on the ground nearby.

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Authorities have not said what led up to the shooting and no arrests have been made at this point.

The case is now being investigated as a homicide but no other information has been released.

And all he got out of it was $100.

Sheeeiiiittt…

WSOCTV:

Months after NoDa restaurant co-owner Scott Brooks was gunned down outside Brooks’ Sandwich House, police have arrested a suspect in his murder.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said officers arrested 33-year-old Terry Conner Jr. Wednesday morning and charged him with murder, armed robbery, kidnapping and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

Arrest warrants said Conner stole $100 from Brooks.

Conner appeared in court on Thursday, where he apologized to the Brooks family but said he is innocent.

Only Channel 9 was there Wednesday shortly after CMPD took Conner from a house on Countryside Drive in the Hidden Valley neighborhood of north Charlotte. We saw investigators collecting evidence and speaking with people in the community.

Eyewitness News spoke with a woman at the home who knew Conner. She said police arrived before dawn with a search warrant.

Authorities have not said what led to the arrest, but did say CMPD officers as well as SWAT, the Violent Criminal Apprehension Team and the FBI were involved.

Brooks was shot to death as he arrived at his family business on North Brevard Street around 5 a.m. on Dec. 9, 2019.

No black is ever too old to commit a good ol’ fashioned home shooting.

WSOCTV:

A man has been charged after a shooting at a south Charlotte home left two people dead and three others injured early Saturday morning, police said.

The shooting happened just before 5:30 a.m. on Lytham Drive, near South Mecklenburg High School.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police told Channel 9 five people, including the suspect, were injured in the incident. Authorities said three people were shot.

One person was pronounced dead at the scene, and another was taken to the hospital, where they later died., investigators told Channel 9.

The victims were identified as Janet Scronce, 40, and Furahn Morrow, 39.

Janet Scronce (mudshark status: unconfirmed, but highly likely) and Furahn Morrow.

Two others were also injured but police have not discussed their conditions.

The suspect, identified as 75-year-old Caldwell Cole Jr., has been charged with two counts of murder and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury with the intent to kill.

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The shooting was not random and started after a fight inside a house in the area, according to CMPD.

Caldwell Cole Jr.

Raheem Shacklette.

To be fair, it was an accident.

He’s a gud boi – he didn’t mean it.

Just a bit cross-eyed, is all. Can’t shoot straight.

WSOCTV:

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said a teenager accused of shooting a prominent doctor in uptown Monday afternoon has been arrested.

The shooting happened just before 4 p.m. near Trade and College streets.

Police said a fight in an alleyway of the EpiCentre led to gunfire, and a man nearby was hit by a stray bullet. That victim was identified as Dr. John Holaday.

“I see a guy laying on the ground,” CMPD Deputy Chief Gerald Smith said. “The way he was laying was telling me something wasn’t right.”

Wew, check out the perception skills of this black Sherlock Holmes.

MEDIC said Holaday, 75, was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Police called his condition grave.

A witness said he saw a group of what he believed to be teens run from the area where the shooting happened.

Police said they detained several subjects of interest immediately after the shooting. On Tuesday morning, police said 16-year-old Raheem Shacklette had been charged with attempted murder, possession of a stolen firearm and possession of a firearm by a minor.

Officials said Shacklette had just come to Charlotte from Georgia and the gun he used had been stolen there.

John Holaday.

Julian Revilla.

“Investigators say Revilla and Fedewa knew each other…”

Thanks, AP.

That’s all we needed to know.

AP:

A man currently incarcerated in Ohio has been charged in the slaying of a 23-year-old woman whose body was found in January along a mid-Michigan roadway.

The Lansing State Journal reports 26-year-old Julian Revilla is awaiting extradition after being charged with murder and felony weapons violations in the fatal shooting of Suzann Fedewa. Authorities announced the charges Tuesday and say they’re seeking to bring Revilla to Michigan.

Court records didn’t indicate whether Revilla has a lawyer.

Fedewa’s body was found Jan. 3 in Eaton County’s Delta Township. Investigators say Revilla and Fedewa knew each other, but they haven’t released details of what happened.

Revilla is at the London Correctional Institution for failing to comply, having a firearm in a vehicle and receiving stolen property.

Suzann Fedewa.

Apparently, the government likes to train for rural Amerikaner uprisings… just in case. This has been going on for the last twenty years, apparently, and no one saw fit to inform me.

The Robin Sage drill is considered a capstone test for new soldiers training to be in the Special Forces – which seems kind of weird, on the face of it. And then you couple that with the fact that if there was one place in the US that would rise up in arms against the federal government, it would almost certainly be rural North Carolina and you can’t help but do a “big think.”

Charlotte Observer:

A series of Special Forces military training exercises — including gunfire with blanks — is being staged across 21 North Carolina counties starting Aug. 30, and the Army is telling the public not to be alarmed at the suspicious-looking activity.

Known as Robin Sage training, the unconventional warfare exercises can be likened to live-action role playing in the extreme, with hostile engagement playing out between Special Forces students, volunteer civilians and soldiers out of Fort Bragg. It continues through Sept. 12, said a press release.

Heavily populated counties like Wake, Cumberland and Union counties are among training sites, according to the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg.

The students will match wits with more seasoned soldiers, who will “act as realistic opposing forces and guerrilla freedom fighters,” officials said in a release.

Sometimes it feels like the Civil War never really ended. The South is reviled by the mass media, and the government runs drills aimed at suppressing any possible White rebellion in Dixieland.

It’s incredible, really.

I always thought that Southerners were delusional and revanchist simply for the sake of it. Now, I know better. The federal government really does want them dead.

But I thought I’d use this opportunity to bring up a point about the imminent Patriot Uprising! 

Conservatives still think that the police and the army could never be used against them because these men in uniform serve the United States and the Republic and the ideals of the Constitution and so on.

This really highlights the delusional nature of most right-wing reactionary thinking. In terms of right-wing political theory, you basically have two camps of thought advocating two political strategies:

1. Wait for an ecological, financial and/or external disaster and run away to the woods to eke out a subsistence lifestyle killing squirrels
2. Wait for the government to issue an order to round up American patriots and watch the soldiers turn their guns on their officers and politicians in protest

These are not well-thought-out strategies.

The truth of the matter is that the government spends a lot of resources on preparing for an uprising and training its soldiers to not hesitate in putting it down. Meanwhile, there isn’t any serious White rebel group in America. That means there won’t be any armed revolution anytime soon, and even if there were, it would no doubt be strangled in its nascency.

People need to move past wishful thinking and come to terms with the facts of the situation as it stands now.

That being said, we’re entering a very turbulent and dangerous period of history and I’m not going to try and pretend like I don’t see more violence coming up on the event horizon.

The government has either deliberately or accidentally created an environment for violence to start escalating and getting out of control.

Jahzion Wilson.

The victim’s own mother advised him not to go, but he did so anyway.

Foolish, foolish lad.

WBTV:

A teenager was found guilty of murder in the killing of a 21-year-old baseball player in Charlotte.

Jahzion Wilson was on trial for robbing and killing Zachary Finch in June 2017. Just before 3:30 p.m., Wilson was found guilty of murder and robbery. He was found not guilty of a third charge, conspiracy. He was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.

On Wednesday, both the state and the defense rested and closing arguments were set for Thursday morning. Wilson had turned down two plea offers already.

“We were shocked that he was going to take a chance,” said Tara Finch, the mother of of Zachary.

Police say Zachary Finch planned to purchase a cell phone using the ‘Let Go’ app, but say when he went to meet the sellers he was robbed and killed.

“This is a cruel process to put families through this. To make you relive this nightmare and make you listen to evidence about how your child was killed,” said Finch.

On Monday, Tara Finch testified that she had asked her son not to go meet the sellers that day in June of 2017.

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The co-defendant, Damonte McCain, pleaded guilty to a lesser charge last year and as a part of that deal, he was asked to testify against Wilson if needed. That did not happen. The defense did not call any witnesses.

Charges against McCain remain pending.

Zachary Finch.

Jamie Lord Harris.

In a white city, it’s not normal for a man to get gunned down while standing outside a bar.

But in a 40%+ black city, it’s a surprisingly common occurrence – and no one seems to know why.

WBTV:

A man was shot and killed while standing on the patio of a popular bar in east Charlotte Saturday night.

This happened at Smokey Joe’s Cafe on Monroe Road.

Detectives were able to identify the victim as 47-year-old John Michael Songer.

On Sunday, officers charged 35-year-old Jamie Lord Harris with murder and possession of a firearm by convicted felon.

During the course of their investigation, detectives identified Harris as the suspect and obtained warrants for his arrest.

Harris was located and arrested without incident. He was then transferred to the custody of the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office.

John Michael Songer.

Yamina Rookard.

Wew, this sheboon’s hair is something else.

Poke that shrubbery with a stick and I guarantee at least three squirrels would leap out.

WSOC TV:

Police have made an arrest in connection with the October shooting death of a woman in east Charlotte.

Yamina Rookard, 17, has been charged with murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon.

Officers were called around 11:20 p.m. on Oct. 17 to the scene at Eastcrest Drive and Central Avenue and found a woman who had been shot.

Jessica Dawn Smith, 29, was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Rookard was transferred to the custody of the Mecklenburg County Jail and has been charged with murder and robbery with a dangerous weapon.

Jessica Dawn Smith.