First place. What causes you to go and just shoot a gun in the air . What were you thinking . I want them to know the process did you go through to get to that point . A 14yearold is charged with three counts of assault with a Deadly Weapon shooting within city limits and possession of firearms by a minor and resisting arrest. The other and possession of marijuana. Shes putney says he wants to make sure a situation like this doesnt happen again and the teens learn from that to. We want to make sure tey understand they have to make good decisions and have good outcomes for most decisions. Process to an ongoing investigation. The police chief says the next step is addressing teen violence to make sure their resources in those areas. Reporting out of cmpd in efforts to find fashion fight crime the chief may day requested the security of the government center. Cmpd is asking for 125 additional sworn officers more technology for dispatchers as well as another Police Station. The chief says charlotte has experienced an increase in crime crime. In 2015 the crime rate went up by 10 when compared to 2014. He says more officers means better protection for the community. We have to catch up there so the important thing is whatever the allocation is we get support. The chief says theyre hoping to have funding for new Police Station by the month of july. Then they would have to figure out which area would benefit from a bigger police presence. A developing story tonight as fatal deputy involved shooting has the sbi investigating the both lending road in anson county. Deputies Kyle Beaman Justin moordener the ones who fired the shot that killed dennis penny. At some point the three of them got into some kind of an altercation and gunfire was exchanged and ultimately killed kenny. Reports say penny might have been assaulting his girlfriend. Two guns up and recovered them are currently being examined. The investigation is officially launched. We have an update as a man has been charged with a deadly shooting yesterday afternoon. 19yearold du jour smith was booked this morning on a long list of charges including aggravated assault with intent to kill. Police responded to call just after 3 30 yesterday afternoon in the 100 block of south brevard street. When they arrived one man was left lying in the street to several gunshot wins. That was sparked by some kind of disagreement. Police say this was not a random act and police tell us this remains ongoing. Another fox 46 news as five deputies are facing discipline following assaulting a protester last weeks donald trump rally and fail though. Administrators in the deputy saw the assault happened and fail to take action. Three of the deuties were demoted and were suspended without pay for five days per the other two were suspended without pay for three days. All five deputies now face one year probation three john mcgraw the 78yearold who threw the punch never came jones was charged with assault and battery. Net 6 00 a story thats pretty hard to believe. The Gaston County mom is behind bars after police say she kept her kids out of school for more than three years. David sentendrey has been working on the story and joining us live outside the Gaston County jail where the mom is a story thats hard to believe a mother keeping her children out of school for more than three years. These children are 1315 and 16 years old heres a mugshot of the mother, 36yearold jennifer elam. I got off the phone with a a school digit may tell me back in 2012 elam filled out the paperwork to pull their children out of school. She was supposed to take them to a Charter School have them homeschooled something besides Gaston CountyPublic Schools but the only problem that never happen. I went to the neighborhood trying to get answers from neighbors that they have seen anything out of the ordinary. They tell me they have seen kids playing in the front of backyard for a while but the problem the family has only lived in the neighborhood for the past three months and not a lot of time for them to get a good idea of whats been going on and they have a lot of questions. I was very surprised. My kids have played with their everyday nextdoor family. I did knock on the door earlier. Her boyfriend answered the door and he asked us to leave the property, didnt have much to say. Right now she is being charged with three counts of misdemeanor contributing to child labor tape reporting live in Gaston CountyDavid Sentendrey fox 46 wjzy. Bill you have to wonder what was going to the moms had prayed she is help on a 30,000dollar bond. We will have information for you on the story tonight at 10 00. The restaurant fire devastates its owners in charlotte. Around 3 30 a. M. Firefighters off flames coming out of the breath. Ruth. It took crews 18 minutes to get the blaze under control. To ease him into traffic were shut down temporary. They believe there were no injuries or Officials Say there are about 50,000 with the damage but no cause but those Business Owners are asking police to review the the investigation is ongoing. Rock Hill School District says its considering a brandnew policy that would allow students to leave class for religious reasons. Superintendent kelly kim introduced a policy that would allow students to leave the School Campus with an excused absence for religious instruction one day each week. But this means his kids could leave for prayer or by both studied no matter what their religion is. Parents would have to sign off on the deal and students couldnt cut core classes like math or science. Speaking of class a South Carolina lawmakers are tossing around the idea of an early start school. There went before a Senate Subcommittee asking for elementary middle and highschoolers to start before the third monday of august. Thats primetime for beach travel and many teens and workers on the job. School Officials Say starting schools to get a full 90 days in for the semester before christmas break. We still have plenty to come including an end and sink faster playback. A card goes into an opening. We will tell you why. One of americas most Popular Stores is shutting down here in the queen city. We will find out why kohls is taking one of its most Popular Stores out of charlotte. K there is a patrick state if you are headed up that looks good. Temperature bill a chaotic scene when a car smashes into the center of emergency room. It happened early this morning in greenville. Police say 59yearold William Spillman was honestly the hospital when he lost control of his car. 20 people were inside when the wreck happened, three of them got hurt. Witnesses say the driver was going about 50 miles an hour in the crash happened. Police are investigating a road rage incident that happened during rush hour on i 85 north tuesday night that according to cmpd a 24 you will make claim somebody pointed a gun at her while she was driving during a road rage incident. Happened at 5 30 p. M. And police are treating it as an aggravated assault case. No shots were fired and police tell us so far no arrests have been made. Getting muchneeded funding tonight. The Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning Organization has approved five different studies that will hopefully change traffic flow for the better. And cornelius old statesville road will be updated aligning faith church road and two more projects in moorseville have got the greenlight to do a look at the intersection of u. S. 21 and n. C. 115 and they will be realigning it. Thats just and we now know what caused the massive fire in an uptown gas station. Take a look at those flames. This was an uptempo charlotte fire officials tell us was an electrical issue that caused the flames at the circle k. It started in the area between the roof and the station stops in which caused the flames shoot up higher. It took more than 50 firefighters to put those flames out and its more than 800,000 in damage that was done. Latest recruit class got hands on training this morning. The department burned down the city Sherwood Forest neighborhood or the city purchased their homes because of problems with flooding in the area in the past. The owners took the buyout to find a better house which ended up being a winwin for everybody. New houses for the owners and a learning experience for the citys firefighter recruits. They are burning my house down. Ive been here 20 years and raised three boys in the house. We have a lot of memories in the house. Its tough but like i said we went through grieving. Not and we are okay with it now. Bill that has to be surreal to watch that happening to. Stormwater services purchased arena 25 floodprone properties since the 1990s. That saving an estimated 300 million. The Popular Department store in our area is closing up shop. A number of Stores Across the country including one here in charlotte. The closing is part of the new strategy by the company to improve sales. Kohls announces closing its of store on south boulevard in across the country. According to the company the stores are all underperforming or heres what it means for workers. Kohls says on average of 80 to 100 people work in each store. Those people will be laid off. As for the future of kohls the company says its testing testing smaller versions of the stores and will follow up a new concept in there he is person the country. Its not clear if any of those Smaller Stores will be in our area. Kohls will open 12 out the stores marking the first time the company will take heart an outlet sales that the stores will close death of june 19 at this year. Doe a bank with a presence here in charlotte is keeping its wells fargo ceo john stone said a measly 19. 3 million according to securities filing on wednesday. He received a 2. 8 million salary of 4 milliondollar bonus and 12. 5 million performancebased stock awards. Thats the same amount he got back in 2014. Wells fargo had a banner year making in your record 23 billion in profit. The bank holds most of its employees here in charlotte. A lot of them will be an uptown train to celebrate celebrate st. Pattys day. Perfect weather so lets send it to chief meteorologist brian basham. I have to call you out, wheres your greendyke . Wheres your dream tie green high. If you wait begins blue around happy st. Patricks day. We do job in the 60s at 8 00 p. M. Uppepe60s and by 10 00 p. M. If you are out and you probably will be at 10 00 p. M. That comes to that 60 to a mild night. We are just now starting to see temperatures cool. Friday by the way, tonight will be nice too whoevers we get into the weekend you will see cloudy and rainy conditions coming back into the area and on top of that we will see Cool Temperatures as well. Yesterday we had a record of 86. We backed off almost 10 degrees jacket as you head out. As we get into the weekend and the first of next week as well. In the mountains where sitting the 50s, 70s for everybody else and 77 in several spots out there. We have a boundary coming through. This moving and quicker today and we expect the winds ones to pick up tomorrow. We will back off on increased wind speeds dry still a fire danger out there so keep that in mind as you plan if you are grilling outside just keep in mind its dry out there but as we get into saturday we will start to see a push of moisture to the area with a big cloud buildup. This is 11 00. If you are headed back to the st. Patricks day parade take your umbrella. You wont need it during the Morning Hours that rain chances on saturday. Close today and back in the 70s. We will show you coming up in 10 minutes just to cool it gets over the weekend. Thank you. Homelessness in charlotte is a serious problem thats got to be salt but the extension of one program is a step in the right direction. Met with in of Mecklenburg County officials announced the annex will remain open until 2018. The building is mostly used for churches and civic groups to feed those in need. Those grounds were facing a may 1 deadline to find a new spot because original plans called for the building to be redeveloped. Police in Minority Community leaders filled up used to make a deal. Well tell you what they hope to accomplish for race relations. Plus some bold claims coming from secretary of state john saying calling it appalling and despicable secretaries of state john kerry says isis is committing genocide against christians and a vigorous radio made this a termination for reviewing information gathered by the state department. The Intelligence Community and outside groups. Carrie said daish which is the acronym for the us dont Islamic State is responsible for crimes of ethnic cleansing in iraq and syria. In my judgment daish is responsible for genocide against groups and areas under its control including this Yazidis Christians and shia muslim. Daish is genocidal by self trucks proclamation ideology and by actions. And what it says, what it believes in what it does. Bill carrie said part of the isis by military force. Donald trump has a new warning for the gop establishment with the race going to the partys Convention Continues to grow. Plus more groups jumping on more than a growing effort to take down the frontrunner. Fox news correspondent doug mcelway is in washington with the latest on the campaign trail. Political and has continued to stress the importance of the`delegate map and looking at the map for the five states that voted in tuesdays primaries gop frontrunner donald trump clearly has the lead with more than half of the delegates needed to secure the republican nomination. I started off with 17 people all smart and all coming into town to three. His closest rival has less than a third in order to beat trump would have to win 80 of the delegates going forward. Winning the delegates is nonexistent or to strategy appears to be the possibility of a brokered convention and whether or not that happens is something pollsters are unsure about to. Every single primary will matter. I cant say this definitely will result in a contested convention. With more backlash following comment struck me during interview this week where the frontrunner suggested that he was to lose the nomination by a few delegates there would be riots. This comes less than a week after string of protests and rallies turn violent. To even address or handset violence is unacceptable that john casey a just and specifically by name in a series of tweets earlier today. One reading quote this implicit acceptance of violence as the record is pulling people apart. Despite for the five state primaries and to see Bernie Sanders is showing no signs of slowing down his effort to do campaigning hard out was the stops in idaho utah and arizona. Doug mcelway fox news. Cuba is putting the final touches on the stadium that will host the very history game. 60 tons of clay equipment and other materials have landed in the aging latin american stadium in cuba. Alta workers have been trying to fix damage seating areas in the room. The field is getting heavy upgrade. Outside the stadium dump trucks scooped up debris is dozens of workers put finishing touches on. Much bigger with the president coming over and the event has a different feel to it to if you look at where we were and 99, so we have made great progress. The Tampa Bay Rays will be playing the Cuban National team the last time American Team played in america cuba was the baltimore orioles. Afpak to put an end to racial tensions in gaston Gaston County. It were there and will make him back we will break down what it means for you. Plus one british band helps define an era but now millions of dollars of their most famed prices could go up in smoke. If you are a sex pistols then you will want to stick around here this. Temperatures remained steady and warm over the last couple weeks. Temperatures coming our way. [content sigh] ah, excuse me . Mr. Jones . Hi. Already . You booked an appointment. I just started cookin. We at Time Warner Cable need to apologize to you. I havent even started to bronze yet. We no longer give you an excuse to work all day perfecting your tan. Starting to even it out. Were making a bunch of changes at Time Warner Cable. Including onehour arrival windows. Well also tell you how long with the racial tensions on the rise across the country asking county leaders are trying to get at the issue. Police in leaders of the Minority Community came together Caroline Denton shows us how. Caroline fountain tells us how. As to candles come together to form one flame Law Enforcement and clergy members in Gaston County are pledging their unity against violence and divisiveness. I was born or raised in this county. I have always lived here. For me to see my Community Come together to do this was powerful. Throughout the hourlong ceremony speakers on both sides mentioned this is not a reaction to any specific incident in Gaston County. We are trying to get ahead of what id be a problem. See act not not to say there are problems here. The profiling has got to stop stop. Not all africanamerican males are doing drugs. People who may think they were treated unfairly but you enforcement chiefs to look at any accusations. See you at the