Seventeen-year-old Nahzir Taylor was shot while getting off a school bus on Lanza Drive in Charlotte on the afternoon of November 30, 2022. A student at Rocky River High School, he was taken to Atrium CMC with life-threatening injuries and died two days later on December 2, 2022.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police arrested a juvenile suspect; the suspect was initially charged with attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and two counts of discharging a firearm into occupied property. After Taylor’s death, CMPD sought to upgrade charges to first-degree murder. Security camera footage showed three people running into a car and fleeing the neighborhood after the shooting.

Taylor’s family filed a lawsuit against the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, alleging school staff knew of a threat made earlier that day and failed to report it to police or his parents; the suit says a cafeteria fight produced a threat to kill Taylor in front of staff and students. The investigation remains active and CMPD is asking anyone with information to come forward.

Did anyone hear or see anything on Lanza Drive that afternoon that could help the investigation?