Corey Barnard, 33, was shot and killed the evening of July 14, 2026, at an apartment complex in the 1400 block of Eastcrest Drive in Charlotte. Officers arriving after a 7 p.m. call for assault with a deadly weapon found Barnard with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses said they saw two people near the pool area shortly before the shots and watched a man flee immediately after the shooting.

Police located a nearby apartment and on July 15, 2026, took two people into custody: 28-year-old Cornelius Lamar Butler and 35-year-old Lashaundra Jackson. Butler was interviewed, then arrested and initially charged with possession of a firearm by a felon; his charges were later upgraded to first-degree murder. Jackson was first charged with accessory after the fact, and investigators later upgraded her charge to first-degree murder after alleging she knew of the plan to commit the killing and filed a false police report about a stolen handgun minutes after the shooting. The investigation is active as detectives continue to piece together events that led to Barnard’s death.

Did anyone in the area that night see activity around the pool or the nearby apartment that could help clarify what happened?