On January 12, 2008, Eric Richard Byrd, 21, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was shot and killed during a robbery attempt in the parking lot of Lake Point Apartments on Point Lake Drive. Byrd had gone there with three associates to buy marijuana. One of Byrd’s friends was confronted by an armed assailant, robbed, and led back to the car where Byrd and the others were waiting. When the men in the car refused the suspect’s demands for money, shots were fired. Byrd died at the scene; his three associates were wounded but survived.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department classifies the killing as an unsolved homicide and has included it in cold case efforts, offering a reward for information leading to an arrest. Anyone who was in the Lake Point Apartments area on January 12, 2008, or who may have information about the robbery and shooting is asked to come forward.