Jamias Lowon Shropshire, 21, was shot and killed shortly after midnight on January 24, 2021, near the 4000 block of Merlane Drive in Charlotte, close to the Sugar Creek neighborhood. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police responded to a call for an assault with a deadly weapon and found Shropshire and two other people with gunshot wounds; medics pronounced Shropshire dead at the scene. The other two victims were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.

CMPD’s Homicide Unit and Crime Scene Search processed the scene and detectives have been investigating. No arrests have been announced. Family and friends remember Shropshire as a young man with a promising future, and authorities are asking anyone with information about the shooting to come forward.

Did anyone in the Charlotte area see or hear anything near Merlane Drive that night?