Javier Lee Martinez-Hernandez, 23, was shot multiple times and killed in Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 13, 2025. Officers responding shortly after 6 a.m. to an assault with a deadly weapon call in the 200 block of Eastway Drive found Martinez-Hernandez suffering from multiple gunshot wounds; emergency personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. Crime Scene Search teams processed the area and representatives from the Charlotte Fire Department and MEDIC also responded.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Homicide Unit opened an investigation with Detective Fitch assigned as lead. His death was one of three separate homicides in Charlotte that day, alongside the killings of Stanley Williams, 37, and Qualo Danials, 31; authorities have not said whether the incidents are connected. No arrests have been announced and detectives are asking anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers or the homicide unit.

If anyone knew Martinez-Hernandez or has information about what happened on Eastway Drive that morning, please contact investigators.