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Two people were killed over a seven-hour stretch in Charlotte, starting at 7 p.m. Thursday, bringing the city’s homicide total to 57 for the year. Charlotte is on pace to record more than 90 homicides this year, a dramatic jump. Last year, the city had 67. The latest killing occurred shortly before 2 a.m. Friday in the 2300 block of Ginger Lane, off East W.T. Harris Boulevard. The incident began as a carjacking, reported the Observer’s news partner WBTV . Officers said they arrived at the Meadowbrook apartments and found a man and woman who had been shot. The man died, but the woman was taken by Medic to Carolinas Medical Center with non- life threatening injuries , police said. Police identified the dead man as Joshua Anthoni Burris , 23. Authorities initially identified him as Joshua Duckworth. The woman has not yet been identified, but WBTV reported she is 19 years old. Police did not provide additional details of the case, but WBTV reported a Chevy Impala connected to the sho...

CHARLOTTE -- Police in Charlotte are investigating two shooting deaths. The first shooting was reported around 7:20 p.m. Thursday on Pleasant Dale Drive . Wallace said officers found 25-year-old Jamario Lacatria McNeely dead . A man at the scene who talked with officers has now been charged with murder. He is 29-year-old George Fernandez. A second shooting, believed to be connected to a carjacking, was then reported around 2 a.m. Friday. Officers found a man and woman shot in the 2300 block of Ginger Lane at the Meadowbrook apartment complex . The man, 23-year-old Joshua Duckworth, was pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not believed to be life-threatening. Her name has not been released. Officers say the couple was visiting people who lived at the complex. Police spent hours at this scene before they received a call from a concerned resident in a neighborhood less than two miles away about a suspicious car. When detectives arrived ...