Charlotte recorded its first homicide of 2026 on the evening of January 5 when 24-year-old Kishmere Wright was fatally shot in Enderly Park. The shooting happened around 7 p.m. in the 3000 block of Carol Avenue, near Rose Street. Paramedics found Wright with multiple gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Wright was an alumnus of West Charlotte High School. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is treating the case as a homicide; no suspect information or arrests have been released and the investigation is ongoing. Police have asked anyone with information to contact the CMPD Homicide Unit or Charlotte Crime Stoppers.

Did anyone in the neighborhood or who knew Kishmere notice anything unusual around Carol Avenue that evening?