Teaun Bates, a 29-year-old African American man, was shot and killed on April 7, 2019, at the Delta Crossing Apartments on Delta Crossing Lane in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was found with gunshot wounds outside the apartment complex, taken to a nearby hospital, and pronounced dead. The shooting was one of two unrelated homicides in east Charlotte that night; Derrick Chambers, 31, was killed separately at the Timber Ridge Apartments on Barrington Drive.

No arrests have been announced in Bates’s case. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has been canvassing the area for witnesses and seeking tips, and local community leaders, including Charles Robinson who had known Bates since age two, expressed grief and called for justice. Anyone with information is asked to contact CMPD homicide detectives or Crime Stoppers.