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3 weeks ago | 
wccbcharlotte.com | Trish Williford |Jeff Monheit
UPDATE:CORNELIUS, NC – A man who set fire to a family’s home in Cornelius has been convicted by a jury in Mecklenburg County. Prosecutors say 27-year-old Mark Liventsov started a fire at a home on Smith Circle on November 9, 2022. The Sitdikov family, their two small children, and dogs were sound asleep inside the home at the time. A Cornelius police officer saw the flames and got the family out safely.
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1 month ago | 
wccbcharlotte.com | Jeff Monheit |Kaci Jones
UPDATE (4/2/25):LANCASTER, SC – A judge denied bond Wednesday for two suspects involved in a shooting inside the Walmart in Lancaster on Tuesday. The suspects are 18-year-old Lareakus Cunningham, Jr., and 19-year-old Na’Rickio Mickle. Both are charged with attempted murder, possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, and breach of peace of a high and aggravated nature. A third suspect is still in the hospital being treated for injuries from the shooting.
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1 month ago | 
wccbcharlotte.com | Miles Ruder |Jeff Monheit
UPDATE:CHARLOTTE, NC – A 20-year-old man has been identified as the victim of a deadly shooting in west Charlotte on Sunday afternoon. CMPD says Wesley Guerra died after someone shot him on Royston Road near Camp Greene Street. There’s no information on the shooter or what may have led up to the shooting. If you know anything that can help detectives, call Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600. You do not need to leave your name or testify, and you could get a cash reward.
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1 month ago | 
wccbcharlotte.com | Jeff Monheit |Kaci Jones
UPDATE (3/27/25)POLKTON, NC – Police say a man accused of kidnapping his six-year-old daughter in Polkton and killing her during a chase with deputies has died in the hospital. Investigators say Michael Roach shot himself after he crashed a stolen SUV, ending that chase on Monday. They believe he shot his daughter Mianna after he took her from her mother’s home around 3 a.m. Monday.
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1 month ago | 
wccbcharlotte.com | Jeff Monheit |Kaci Jones
UPDATE (2/25/25):POLKTON, NC – Police have identified a man accused of kidnapping his six-year-old daughter in Polkton and killing her during a chase with deputies as Michael Roach. According to investigators, a woman called 911 around 3 a.m. Monday. She said Roach, who lived with her at a home on West Street, came into her room with a gun and took their daughter Mianna Roach, then took off in the woman’s SUV.
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2 months ago | 
wccbcharlotte.com | Kaci Jones |Jeff Monheit
UPDATE:CHARLOTTE, NC – An innocent bystander got shot, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police, during a street takeover in University City late Saturday night. It happened around the same time a wrecker company driver encountered a crowd of hundreds in the street. Video shared exclusively with WCCB shows cars doing donuts at University City Boulevard near Neal Road and you see people hanging out the windows of the green sedan wave at the dash camera.
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2 months ago | 
wccbcharlotte.com | Jeff Monheit |Kaci Jones |Deirnesa Jefferson
UPDATE:MONROE, NC – Charges have been dismissed against a woman who had been accused of locking her boyfriend in a Monroe storage unit for several days. Robin Deaton was charged with first degree kidnapping and attempted first degree murder after Gary Oxendine told police she locked him inside a unit at Cooper Storage on Old Charlotte Highway for four days following an argument.
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2 months ago | 
wccbcharlotte.com | Dj Beal |Caryn Little |Jeff Monheit
UPDATE:CHARLOTT, NC – The man killed by police after they say he fired at officers in northeast Charlotte has been identified as 28-year-old Reggie Knight. CMPD says officers were trying to serve Knight with 11 warrants out of Mecklenburg County along with arrest orders out of Mecklenburg and Iredell Counties. Knight and officers got into a shootout on Headquarters Farm Road Friday afternoon.
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2 months ago | 
wccbcharlotte.com | Gary Brode |Jeff Monheit
UPDATE:CHARLOTTE, NC – An autopsy report shows Ta’haley Payton died from hypothermia. The 22-year-old from Greenville, SC disappeared on November 20, 2024 after a visit to Charlotte with her boyfriend. Her body was discovered in Pearl Street Park on December 9, 2024. According to the autopsy, her body was mostly unclothed, in a streambed in a state of early decomposition. The report also says there was no evidence of acute injury. ORIGINAL STORY (POSTED 12/11/24):CHARLOTTE, NC – A shocking discovery.
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2 months ago | 
wccbcharlotte.com | Gary Brode |Jeff Monheit |Kaci Jones
CHARLOTTE, NC – The mother of a Greenville, South Carolina woman found dead in Charlotte tells WCCB something isn’t adding up with the autopsy results released in her daughter’s death. The tests results show she died from hypothermia. Autopsy results Ta’Haley Payton died accidentally. Payton’s body was pulled from Little Sugar Creek back in December after loved ones reported her missing in November. “I’m looking at pictures, thank God for that.
