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police at scene of shooting in charlotte

On April 29, four officers were killed trying to serve outstanding arrest warrants on a man in an East Charlotte neighborhood. The man, Terry Hughes Jr., was also killed, and five other officers were wounded.  […]

Michael Hewlett is a courts and law reporter for The Assembly. He was previously a legal affairs reporter at the Winston-Salem Journal and has won two Henry Lee Weathers Freedom of Information Awards.

Anne Blythe, a former reporter for The News & Observer, has reported on courts, criminal justice, and an array of topics in North Carolina for more than three decades.