On August 13, 2024, at about 8:00 a.m., officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department responded to a welfare check in the 14000 block of Wynhollow Downs Lane in the Ballantyne area of Charlotte. Inside a vehicle they found 17-year-old Aryan Singh Jaswal, who was pronounced dead at the scene. Initial investigators reported Jaswal had been shot multiple times in what police described as a typically quiet apartment complex near Ballantyne Commons Parkway and Lancaster Highway.

The CMPD Homicide Unit, assisted by Crime Scene Search, Victim Services, Operations Command and the Charlotte Fire Department, opened an immediate investigation. After two months of work, on October 11, 2024, law enforcement located and arrested a 16-year-old in Conway, South Carolina; that juvenile, not named because of age, was charged with murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon. The charges indicate a possible robbery motive, but detectives say the investigation remains active.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact homicide detectives or Crime Stoppers. Did anyone in the Ballantyne area see or hear anything around that morning that could help investigators?