Charlotte police provide update on shooting that killed 4 officers

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (WTVD) — The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department held a briefing Friday evening with an update on the investigation into the fatal shooting of four law enforcement officers last month.

In April, the officers were shot and killed while attempting to execute two arrest warrants in Charlotte. Four other police officers were injured in the incident.

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The four law enforcement officers who were killed were later identified as Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Weeks Jr., 48; Sam Poloche and Alden Elliott, veterans of the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction; and CMPD Officer Joshua Eyer.

The four were members of the U.S. Marshals Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force.

Deputy Police Chief Tonya Arrington said more than 1,100 videos were obtained after the shooting.

Arrington showed diagrams of the house the suspect, Terry Clark Hughes Jr., was in at the time of the incident. She said Hughes was able to move between windows in the house. Arrington also said the investigation revealed that Hughes told a woman inside at the time to get out or get downstairs before shooting at the officers with an AR-15 rifle.

Hughes then jumped out of a second story window during the shootout with the officers that lasted more than 17 minutes. He was shot and died in the front yard, Arrington said.

Investigators said they found no evidence of “friendly fire.”

“We can confirm that the suspect is responsible for everyone who was shot in the line of duty that day,” Arrington said.

She went on to say that after Hughes was shot, officers headed to the house to round up all the injured staff. When the officers approached, Arrington said the officers reported seeing movement from the window where the gunshots had previously come from and pointed their guns at the window.

She said two women were inside the home at the time of the shooting, but no other weapons were found after it was cleared by a SWAT team.

Investigators collected evidence from 1,128 body-worn cameras, 8,903 images, 65 police interviews and 765 pieces of evidence, Arrington said.