A family gathering in Charlotte, North Carolina, ended in tragedy on the morning of Sunday, June 28, 2026, when gunfire struck a home in the 900 block of Wabash Avenue. The house held about a dozen people, including toddlers and a teenager, when a barrage of shots hit the residence. Twenty-seven-year-old Marle Naomi Fleming was struck and taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries; a second person suffered non-life-threatening wounds. Marle died on Tuesday, June 30.

Investigators quickly identified a primary suspect as 25-year-old Marques Fleming, Marle’s brother. He fled North Carolina but was located by a multi-agency effort involving the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Team and the FBI’s Charlotte Safe Streets Task Force. On June 30 he was apprehended by an FBI SWAT team in the Atlanta area; he had been out on a $250,000 bond for a November 2020 first-degree murder charge and reportedly violated a 24-hour house arrest condition.

Extradition steps were begun to return Marques Fleming to Charlotte to face charges in Marle’s death. No conviction or sentence has been announced, and the investigation remains active. If anyone was at the gathering or has information about the shooting, investigators want to hear from you.