Carolyn Sue Boetticher, 48, was fatally wounded during a Charlotte police shooting on April 9, 1997. Officers Shannon Jordan and Donn Belz fired 22 shots at a car that ran a police checkpoint; Boetticher, a back-seat passenger, was struck in the back of the neck and died the next morning at Carolinas Medical Center. Neither Boetticher nor the driver, Robert G. Lundy Sr., 55, were armed. Lundy, of West Columbia, South Carolina, was arrested after attempting to flee.

The shooting prompted calls for a full investigation and renewed criticism of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. It was reported as the third time in four years that an unarmed Black person had been fatally shot by white officers at a traffic stop in Charlotte, and a task force on racial harmony had been formed the previous fall. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP’s political action committee demanded accountability, while Police Chief Dennis Nowicki said Officer Jordan felt his life was in danger when the stolen car sped toward them.

What information do readers have about Carolyn Boetticher’s life or about witness accounts from that night that could help clarify what happened?