Charlotte neighbor told a fatal shootout, in which 4 officers were killed 1 year later

Charlotte, NC (WBTV) – If you go through the Shannon Park district in East Charlotte this month, you may never know that it was the situation of a shootout, which was killed in several law enforcement officers in 2024.

The neighborhood is quiet and people usually think they are. But the people who live there say that they will never forget this April day – or the life that has changed forever.

On April 29, 2024, four law enforcement officers were killed when they tried to meet an arrest warrant in the East Charlotte district. The authorities were hit with shots when they tried to arrest the 39-year-old Terry Hughes, who was able to flee and flee through an ex-felon because of the possession of a firearm to escape.

Hughes and the following four officers were killed: the police officer of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Joshua Eyer; The members of the Department of Adults by North Carolina, Sam Poloche and Alden Elliott; And the deputy US marshal Thomas Weeks Jr. were violated four further law enforcement officers.

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Deborah Kennedy has called the neighborhood house for almost 25 years.

“I love living here. It's calm, it's peaceful,” said Kennedy.

On the day of the shootout in 2024, Kennedy prepared hundreds of miles to climb a cruise ship. Then she learned that something normal happened in her house.

“” Your house is in the news “, Kennedy recalled that her daughter told her.” It looks like it was a kind of recording. “

Kennedy said the news sent her to a “small panic mode”.

The ring video from her neighbor on the other side of the street shows a flood of officers that react to the situation and are recorded in a house behind her.

“Thank God, I wasn't here,” said Kennedy.

It took a week for Kennedy to see the consequences of the severe police presence in her farm from this day.

“This fence was all the way down and you can see what it looked like,” emphasized Kennedy WBTV. Kennedy said that the city paid for it to be repaired.

She was really surprised when she received a visit from an officer in search of a badge of one of the fallen officers.

“I have my rake and [we] Both came here and looked. Sure enough, he found this badge, “said Kennedy.” It was from the heart. He told me that this woman wanted to get this badge – and I could see … He was emotional. “

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Tyler Wilson was home on Ruth Drive when the situation took place on April 29, 2024. After Wilson heard a number of shots, he said that the officials had appeared within three minutes and raved his farm.

“I opened the door and said:” Come through the house, “said Wilson.

Wilson recorded several videos of officers who took positions in his garden to bring the shooter down. Wilson also got a video of an officer who hurried through his house after the officer was shot.

“He was shot in the leg somewhere. He had a tour,” said Wilson.

Wilson pointed to a large oak tree to WBTV, in which the officials tried to take cover when they were under fire.

The officials also took off a camp that was once in the back yard of the house next to the shootout. Wilson bought the motorhome for $ 300 from the neighbor for everything he did in front of the shootout.

Wilson pointed to several ball holes that he has patched since then. He said the motorhome was now for sale – but he does not separate from another article he found.

“We found two pairs of handcuffs the next day.

The cuffs sit high up in a shelf in his living room in a shadow box. He said WBTV, he held her to remember the day.

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Lawrence Burke Jr. said it was a day he would never forget.

“On this day … it was like a war zone,” said Burke.

A police block brewed to get to his house for hours while the officials exchanged shots when a man of 5525 Galway Drive shot.

According to Burke, officers said in a armored truck that he had to withdraw from the scene and that four officers were below.

“We had to go back to the bridge all the way there,” said Burke.

In all the lively memories of this day, Burke usually thinks of life that has changed forever.

“They think of the women of the officers, the fallen officers, how they have to go forward, the children … and think about it almost every time they go to the house at the house,” said Burke.

Most people with whom WBTV spoke in Shannon Park say that not much has changed since April 29, 2024. The neighborhood is still quiet, and most of the people think.

The damage that remains on the house on the house in the 5525 Galway Drive has now disappeared a year later, but the people who live around him will never forget life forever.

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