[explosion] [explosion] that dont stop me. During what is the second night of protest over the Police Shooting of a black suspect, the cameras heard what was a loud bang. They rounded a corner and caught on video, this is it here, we have blurred the bodies, caught on video what appears to be a lifeless body laying on the ground. People running in, Police Moving in, a second body nearby. Tear gas was fired. And our crews had to retreat. Since then many questions, not a lot of answers. But the scene has been chaotic and obviously dangerous. What we have seen without the blurring in front of it. Get to Steve Harrigan in one minute is one body that appears to have a gunshot to the head. The person was bleeding and not responsive. And another person who appears to have been shot. The condition of that person not known. Lets get right to Steve Harrigan on the ground in charlotte. Steve . Megyn, we are right here in downtown, charlotte. You can see the crowd forming outside the ritz carlton hotel. Its a tense situation. Its not going to stand for long. We have seen the police rush this crowd two previous lobletions. Fired tear gas and concussion grenades. Every few minutes the crowd will start to run. The tear gas has many people running in different directions. Poorly organized march. Calm from 5 00 on. And then about an hour ago it started to turn. I have tell you what we have seen with our own eyes and with the video footage from chris who with is right in the middle of things that is one young black american male down with what seemed to be a gunshot to the head. He was bleeding profusely from the back of his head, covered up with a sheet from the city reports city officials are saying he has life threatening injuries. Whats not clear is who fired that shot. But at least one person shot. One person wounded. In a situation already extremely tense and certainly more news of another shooting is going to cause this to spiral even further. To repeat we dont know who fired the shot right there in the middle of the tear gas. One man shot here. Lobbing bottles now and lobbing rocks at police. Miss are set up a border line outside the omni hotel this crowd is coming back for more. You can see a lot of the protesters have masks or bandannas around their face. They are prepared for tear gas and, yet, despite the fact that its wellknown in the crowd, that two people have been shot or at least one man has been seriously shot, the crowd is coming back for more. As they start to throw things at the ritz carlton, hotel. Earlier we saw someone start to smash that mercedes suv there in the parking lot. Were going to try not to get too close here because you never know when the crowd is going to start to rush. Im going to ask chris to start to back up here. Only a matter of time before we get a rush. Take shelter behind the wall as we wait for what is likely to happen next. Thats going to be a round of tear gas by police as they try and stop people, as they try to stop people from smashing things in front of this ritz carlton, hotel. Now we are seeing fireworks and there is a run. Lets get behind the wall. Were backing up now. A lot of confusion when these things happen the crowd starts to run. So much disinformation, misinformation throughout this controversy here. Throughout these events there have been really two different versions of whats happened on the ground. On the other hand, there has been the official Police Version of how this all started and that is of a man with a gun hot by police and unofficial version taking place on social media a lot of different charges. Now we can see how that happens here in realtime. People from the crowd running saying they shot someone else. They shot someone else. Rumors spread and, yet, that has not diminished this crowd. After one man shot, one man wounded, this crowd only getting larger as you can see they begin to hurl things in the direction of the police. Megyn, back to you. Steve harrigan, kudos to you and our photog for being so brave and being in the middle of it all. A question for you about the victims, the number of shot, because what we saw on our cameras was two different individuals. One who we are told looked like he had a gunshot wound to the head. The other also down and appeared to have been wounded by a gunshot. Perhaps you havent seen the second person or dont know about him. But have you were you aware of that prior to me telling you about it . Yes. Its all happening in a very small square area here. A crowd of about 800. Many of them wearing masks. One man, Young Africanamerican did seem to be seriously wounded with a lot of blood coming out from his head. He was covered up with a sheet and taken away with what Officials Say are serious injuries. Its not clear who fired that shot. A second man injured. It appears to be less serious. Keep in mind there is a lot of things flying around here. Rocks, bottles, concussion grenades, tear gas, also a crowd running. So its not clear what could have caused the injuries to the second man. Those injuries, from what key could see seemed less serious than the first. But if a man is shot, a Young Africanamerican man shot in this crowd here the story is really going to he is can a a little, megyn. As they run through the streets saying they shot another one, that it happened to somebody else, we dont know who did the shooting. We have no idea whether this is an officer to protect the crowd and maintain order or whether this was somebody inside the crowd. Some rabble rouser. Somebody who thought they were facing a threat. We dont have any idea. Exactly. And there is a lot of desperate elements in this crowd. Everything from earlier families with Young Children out to see what was happening peace protesters saying black lives matter. And then we are seeing other protesters dressed very differently with masks, prepared for battle, swearing, smashing and throwing. So this crowd really has run the gam muted and the more violent, more radical elements are the ones on the street right now. Is there any significance to the location where this is happening . We know that Keith Lamont Scott was charlotte in charlotte. Shot and killed by a Police Officer in charlotte. But, in terms of where they are by the ritz carlton, whats happening in this particular location that brought the protesters there . Protesters were organizing earlier at 7 00 p. M. In a park and they marched around. My guess is this extremely affluent parts of the city. Ritz carlton and someone smashing up a suv. Perhaps class playing a role. Whats the ratio to police to protesters if you can spit ball that for us . I would say about 800 protesters. Mainly young. I guess 90 africanamerican. A lot in masks, a lot shirtless. A lot holding up their phones or recording things themselves. And every 15, 20 minutes, they have had to run down the streets in really pandemonium due to that tear gas being fired. As far as the police go, we have seen them setting up metal barricades around buildings, trying to protect glass from being smashed. Around restaurants and around hotels. But it seems to have been a late start. That might not be the polices fault. We have seen a lot of a lot of Chaotic Organization on the part of the protesters. Different groups with different goals, moving in different directions. Certainly a challenge for Law Enforcement here. We want to mention to the audience that we had previously scheduled an interview tonight with the Charlotte Police chief, kerr put any. Putney. He is here. We are getting him miked up right now. I want to ask you, steve, just to describe the scene for us as someone who is there. What is the smell in the air . You can smell gunpowder . Is it fireworks . What is the volume . What kinds of noises are you hearing live there on the scene. You can feel tear gas in your throat. You start to cough when they fire another round. I guess the mood swings pretty dramatically. You see people taking selfies and people celebrating and then people running in panic. So its a real weird situation where at least one man has been shot and the crowd continues to gather. They shot him. He was shot just like everybody else. Plaque people get shot every day, right . Its okay for that, right . Its okay for our brothers and our fathers not to come home, right . May i ask you one question while you are here. If a man was shot about 50 yards offer there. We dont know by who. Why are you here . Because i serve a purpose, sir. I serve is a purpose. My father served a purpose. My procedure serves a purpose. Im here because, guess what . Whether im here, im in school, im in my car, you said, okay, a man got shot over here, right . So you basically said why why put myself in danger. Exactly. Guess what . I could be at work, at school, in my car, i could still get shot by the police i could get shot anywhere. Do you see this . I do. Do you see that . Yes. Do you see me. Yes. We are not just seeing humans. But i am black and you are white. So dont tell me not to come over here. Im not telling you. And i appreciate you giving no, maam. I think you are let me tell you why. To thank you for speaking to us. Have happened. You know what has happened. Black men has been killed. Black women have been killed, sir. All lives matter,. May i ask you another question . Yes, sir. All lives matter. When people were running out, i heard a lot of people saying they shot someone else. They did. Does anyone know or did anyone see who did the shooting or are you concerned that were not sure exactly what happened . You want it on video so you can put it on the news, right . Thats what you are trying to find out. Have we got a video so you can elaborate off it. Make a buck and fabricate a story. You want a video so you can fabricate a story, right . Right . Were going to back up a little bit here, megan. We will toss it back to you. You can see a lot of hostility and a lot of skepticism towards the media i was in front of the omni hotel. Absolutely. We can see that feed. Thank you for the interview. Were trying to get the stories of the people who were there on the scene to tell. The country why they are there, so upset and willing to risk their lives to make their point. There is no better way to make them than standing in front of the tv camera. We apologize for the profanity, obviously this is a live protest we are covering it and seeing for the first time as you are. We want to bring in a exclusive interview tonight chief putney. Thank you for being here tonight as unbelievable scene unfolds in Downtown Charlotte this evening. Want to bring our viewers up to date because we havent yet told them the full story of Keith Lamont Scott. They may not know why you are involved and folks are upset. This is a man who was shot to death by an officer after your officer observed scott inside a scott. Scott exited the car you say with a handgun. He got back in the car. The officers approached the vehicle. They told him to get out of the vehicle, to drop the weapon, despite those commands, this is your version of it, scott exited the vehicle, armed with a handgun and that is when he was shot to death. Now, the officer who shot and killed him. Thats correct. Officer vincent is black. Keith lamont scott was black. And the community in charlotte, tonight, believes that this is another example of black lives not mattering. And they also challenge your story that Keith Lamont Scott had on him. He was with a book waiting to pick up his son and he was shot down like an animal sitting in the car. I want to start with you, chief, and ask you why you dont believe thats true. Well, there is your truth, my truth, and the truth. I have to deal in the truth. I have to deal in facts. The version that you hear from me is based on evidence. Its based on testimony that we get from witnesses and the officers there. And its corroborated with the evidence that we gather there on the scene. Chief, can i ask you, can you see the monitor . You can see fox news right now on a monitor near you . Yes. No, i can see the camera only. Okay. Because what we are seeing now in charlotte an overhead shot what appears to be canisters of tear gas and people running in and out. Have the officers been ordered to use tear gas and disperse the crowd, do you know . Absolutely. Thats why i have such limited time. I have got to get back to work here. But absolutely. Were trying to disperse the crowd. We have been very patient. But now they have become very aggressive throwing bottles and so forth at my officers. So its time for us now to restore order. Is there any doubt in your mind that there was a gun in the hand of Keith Lamont Scott and that a gun was recovered near him at the scene . Absolutely no doubt whatsoever, no. You know his family, others say the cops planted it. Okay. How do you disprove that will the body cameras of the police disprove that. All i can tell you all the evidence we have support the version that we heard from witnesses, from our officers, and from the evidence that we found on the scene not my job to dispute anybodys version. We are just going to present the facts and let the Justice System run its course and we will see how that turns out. Right now we are standing on the facts. Im not fabricating anything. I have nothing to gain for doing Something Like that. Were just going to stand by the facts that we know. And we have seen pictures of Keith Lamont Scotts body. We have seen what appears to be a gun right next to his foot. What appears to be an ankle holster on his body which may have been holding such gun. You may want to hear this too. Something is happening lyon the scene in charlotte and our reporter is in the middle of it. We need to go. Steve . Steve harrigan . Megyn, we have just seen another round of tear gas. Im closing mys now and i can feel the back of my throat. When that happens 1,000 people took off. Now about 10 feet away from me. Looting is going on. A souvenir store. The front door and glass has been smashed. People are going in and carrying things out. Just to sum up what we have seen now, we have seen a line of police form and block off the area where we saw at least one man shot. All right. Were going to leave and now looting going on. Leave our camera on steve. The chief is still with us. We are seeing looting and we have seen one man shot in the head and reports of another man injured. You can confirm that a man was shot in the head tonight . We can confirm that we have one shot and has been transported and last information we got that person deceased at this point. Again, sorry i cant really finish this interview with you. I have got to get back to work. We have got to get some order restored here in our city. Absolutely. Best of luck to you. And your men and women in blue tonight, chief. Thank you for sparing the time. They are doing heroic work and im honored to be a part of it. Thank you so much. Honored to have you here. All the best to you, sir. Get back to Steve Harrigan watching all the events unfold. The reporters are in danger. The protesters are in danger. The scene is not safe. Steve harrigan . Megyn, the police have pushed forward now about 500 yards. A line of them at least 100 in riot gear and tear gas has cleared the area where at least one young man was shot. We dont know by whom. And one man injured. This is something we have seen repeat throughout the night where there is tear gas, the crowd clears and the crowd comes back for more. Earlier this started out as peaceful protest. A lot of families a lot of Young Children with signs coming out and walking and marching. Now its turned violent. The swearing and looting about 10 feet from me. A souvenir store was just looted. I have seen some cars smashed. The ritz carlton smashed out in front. Police trying to establish order with tear gas but the order that they have established seems to only last about 20 minutes before this crowd regathers. And if it is true that a young man has been seriously shot, and when we find out by whom, this situation could escalate in the days to come. We understand that they are using tear gas as a matter of course. Thats what they do to get control of the crowd. It seems to be having no effect, steve. You tell me. It seems like they run and they come right back and they may be growing in number because what we heard about an hour ago is that the protesters were about 100 in number and grew to 300 in number. Your number estimated to 800. What happens now does the crowd grow or staying the same . Right now the crowd has dispersed due to the line of police and due to a heavy barrage of tear gas. There are also some stun grenades and flash bang grenades. Throwing everything but lethal authors at protesters for now they have scattered. Despite the knowledge of one man down, one man being shot and we dont know by whom this crowd has regathered time and time again. We have spoke to people in the crowd. I apologize for some the swearing there. You can see the intense anger by the people there intense anger that their story is not being told. They are not safe on the street day or night here. From the younger crowd here. 90 i would say africanamerican are real hostility toward the police, towards people with the camera as well as they continue to regather and confront the police in downtown, charlotte. I want to show the viewers a moment over the Police Scanner when the gunshot took place. Watch and listen. You may have had a shot fired shot and trade. Crowd running in different directions. Sound like a shot being fired. Look like you have got somebody down. May have been shot. Several hundred people mobbing them right now. The medic is not going to be able to get in there have them staged but they cant get in there right now. Its out of control. Medic staged but cant get in there because its out of control. Thats what we have heard. Local reporting now that one person was taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries taken to the hospital and therefore they were able to get in there and real estate treef at least one person who had been shot as the Police Confirm to us. We are watching not only crowds and destruction of property, but looting as well, which we have seen elsewhere, ferguson, missouri, baltimore, maryland, in the wake of officerinvolved shootings involving black men. This particular case involves a black Police Officer as well an