Lashunda Shmicka McLendon, 42, was shot dead on December 13, 2024, around 10:00 a.m. in the 300 block of Archdale Drive in Charlotte. Officers found McLendon with a gunshot wound and she was pronounced dead at the scene after CMPD responded to reports of an assault with a deadly weapon.

Surveillance from the Archdale Minimart shows a verbal altercation earlier that day between McLendon and 43-year-old Ebonee Makeesa Rahman. Video reportedly captures Rahman removing her jacket, confronting McLendon, then walking to the parking lot, meeting an unidentified man, taking a handgun from his jacket, returning to McLendon—who was seated in a chair—and shooting her in the chest. Rahman was arrested December 14, 2024, and charged with first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a felon; she is held in the Mecklenburg County Jail without bond.

McLendon’s family has urged that the unidentified man who provided the firearm also be held accountable. Her funeral took place December 21, 2024, at Bennie Blakely Jr. Memorial Chapel in Monroe. The investigation remains active; anyone with information is asked to contact CMPD’s Homicide Unit or Crime Stoppers. Does anyone have information about the man seen meeting Rahman in the parking lot?