On the evening of Sunday, January 25, 2026, 26-year-old John Glenn Martinez was shot and killed in west Charlotte. The shooting happened about 8:30 p.m. in the 2400 block of Elmin Street near West Boulevard. Martinez was working as a DoorDash delivery driver in the area; when officers arrived they found him with multiple gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Undelivered food was left at the scene, and family members said they did not know whether he had been making a delivery or had pulled over for another reason.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Homicide Unit opened an investigation and initially made no public identification of a suspect. On Tuesday, January 27, 2026, Mesquite, Texas police stopped a vehicle for moving violations and arrested 30-year-old Kelvin Javier Molina Garcia for not having a license and for failure to identify. Officers determined the vehicle was linked to the Charlotte homicide; Charlotte-Mecklenburg police had identified Molina Garcia as a suspect and issued a murder warrant. Molina Garcia was booked into the Mesquite City Jail pending extradition to North Carolina.

If anyone in the west Charlotte neighborhood saw activity around Elmin Street on the evening of January 25, or knew Martinez’s movements that night, please share what you know.