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15-year-old JK Patterson was walking down the street in his own neighborhood early one evening when he was shot. When police arrived, they told him-incorrectly-he d been hit by a BB gun and made him stand up.
Charlotte man charged with shooting woman, teen in Shelby
The Shelby Star
A teenager accused of shooting a woman and her daughter is being held without bond in the Cleveland County jail.
Zaire Ali Muhammad, 18, of Charlotte, was arrested Wednesday night.
He has been charged with two counts of attempted murder.
According to Shelby Police, Muhammad fired the non-fatal shots on Gold Street on the evening of Wednesday, Feb. 3.
Investigators believe Muhammad shot Kenya Youngblood, 35, and her 16-year-old daughter because of an argument online.
According to police, Youngblood’s daughter and another teen were having a dispute over social media, and Muhammad is believed to have been acquaintances with the other teen.
“2020 was the year of uncertainty and chaos, and it had people on edge,” Ledford said.
Though the year put a strain on many, it did help officers figure out new ways of working with the community, Ledford said.
As mandates came to socially distance and restrict gathering sizes, Ledford and his team looked for different ways for officers to connect with a community. Walks through neighborhoods, pop-up cookouts in different communities in the city and arranging meetings with community partners, weren’t tools they could rely on during COVID-19.
Officers relied on phone calls, Zoom meetings and digital ways to connect, but it wasn’t the hands-on community policing that Ledford has championed during his tenure as chief.