Melakah Ajani Corbette was 17 when he was fatally shot on February 1, 2024, at about 1:15 a.m. on Pitts Drive near L.C. Coleman Park in Charlotte, North Carolina. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers found Corbette with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Corbette was a student at Julius L. Chambers High School and had recently signed with a New York modeling agency and planned to pursue modeling opportunities.

On March 9, 2024, CMPD arrested a 16-year-old juvenile and charged that person with murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon, and conspiracy to commit robbery with a dangerous weapon; the juvenile was placed in the custody of the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice. The killing highlights rising youth involvement in violent crime in Charlotte, where CMPD reported increases in juvenile arrests and underage involvement in shootings compared with the previous year.

If anyone has information about Melakah, his activities that night, or the events on Pitts Drive, please come forward to assist the investigation.