Very soon and quickly. When were here inside of the Government Center today when folks gathered to talk about this measure they say they want to do it on march 16th one day after the election. And one other thing to point out, the county commissioner, this is her idea but says she has bipartisan support. And one of the people that is backing this is republican jim pucket. Steve crump covering this today. A chapel hill bar linked to a drunk driving crash will reopen. He is not here is one of two bars cited after chandler and his friends were allowed in despite being underage. Investigators say after leaving he drove drunk and caused a crash that killed three people. One of the victims was Felicia Harris from charlotte. The story is sickening. Two 4yearold children told assaulted over a period of five months including at a gentlemans club. The four people are accused in engaging in sex acts including intercourse with those two children. The victims told investigators one of the locations
The gathering attracted city councilmember autrey would voted for it and feels strongly that peoples safety would not be violated. It has not happened in columbia, South Carolina. And it has not happened in charleston, South Carolina and in myrtle beach. And i have talked to the panthers organization. And Panthers Stadium and the Charlotte Motor Speedway has similar protections. Opponents want a special legislative session before the law takes effect on april first. Dan bishop backs the idea. We have an extra week available and a couple days in order to get it done before april 1 the date of the ordinance they passed. Now, you talk about timing. Here is another aspect. April first is the big date. But the state legislature they have a special session which begins on april 25. The question in all of this is what goes on for the 24 days . Live in west charlotte, Steve Crump Wbtv on your side. Go to wbtv. Com for more of our coverage on the nondiscrimination ordinance. Nice night here in
A major story we are following, all eyes turn to North Carolina just ahead of the states primary tomorrow. Several president ial hopefuls will hold events in our area today making a final push for voter support. Britney johnson, both candidates women be in charlotte today for the democrats . Reporter they will be. We have talked to volunteers for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Leading up to todays rallies in charlotte. Bernie sanders is up first, he is inviting voters to pnc music pavilion for his rally, called a future to believe in. Doors open at 1 30 and he will discuss his plans on immigration restorm, College Affordability and the economy. Later this evening Hillary Clinton will speak at a get out the vote event at the Grady Cole Center just outside of charlotte and doors open there at 7 15 tonight. We learned that it is up to each campaign, there are no we followed up with supporters who told us they have been making 10,000 calls a day, drumming up last minute support. She i
Investigation began sunday of aa saturday Night House Party led to the deaths of lewis. Tuesday morning, they began a triple Homicide Investigation after officers found the dead bodies of Giovanni Gambino and two others in just one homicide Gaston County police used all seven detectives to investigate. It takes all the resources with crime analysts depending on how big the case can get and how detailed with a lot of records and things of that nature. With two homicides to solve resources are thin. Detectives are taken off one case to work on the area. And the Gaston County Police Department has 12 openings for officers. But its not just the homicide cases that suffer. It causes us to delay other investigations because our efforts are to try and solve the homicide as quickly as possible. The mount holly suspect is still on the run. Officers arrested crystal gambino Tuesday Morning for the triple homicide. There is a lot of work that goes into preparing a case and get to go prepared for
67milesperhour. That is a check of your morning traffic, john, over to you. John right now, get over to Brody Oconnell. Christine in the alert center with more breaking news. Brody a homicide at park fairfax drive in the freedom division, this is an apartment complex. We have new pictures to show you from the scene. As you can see a very active scene, a lot of police there. Here what is we learned, apparently a call came in before 3 00 a. M. From the apartment complex, police got to the scene and they didnt locate anybody who needed help. It was a medic call that came in, didnt find anybody, they cleared the scene. Then a short time later they got a call from Carolinas Medical Center and it was information letting them know a man was driven to the er with an apparent gunshot wound. Police went over to the hospital so we have two scenes here, the man pronounced dead at Carolinas Medical Center, according to cmpd, right now the victims identity was not release and no word yet on any arre