Northeast Charlotte shooting on Frew Road leaves 18-year-old dead as homicide investigation continues

What happened

A shooting in northeast Charlotte on Saturday morning, May 3, 2025, left one person dead after officers responding to a reported traffic collision discovered the driver had been shot.

Police were dispatched at about 11 a.m. to Frew Road for what was initially described as a crash with injuries. When officers arrived, they found 18-year-old Kamorrie Prather suffering from a gunshot wound. Prather was taken to the hospital by Medic and later died.

Location and early investigative steps

The incident occurred in the 3600 block of Frew Road, near Drury Drive in the North Tryon Division. Investigators treated the scene as a homicide, with detectives and crime-scene personnel working to document evidence and establish a timeline of events that led from the reported collision to the discovery of the shooting victim.

At the time the death was confirmed, police had not announced an arrest or publicly identified a suspect. Authorities also had not released information indicating whether the shooting stemmed from a dispute, targeted encounter, or another circumstance.

How the case fits into a broader 24-hour period of violence

Prather’s death came during a span of less than 24 hours in which Charlotte recorded at least two fatal shootings. Earlier the same day, a separate shooting was reported around 3 a.m. on Branch Way Court near East Arrowood Road, where one person was also killed.

Investigators have not publicly connected the two cases, and they have been handled as separate incidents.

What remains unknown

Key facts remained unresolved as the investigation continued, including:

• Who fired the shot that killed Prather and whether more than one person was involved
• How the shooting related to the crash call that brought officers to Frew Road
• Whether there were witnesses at the scene or nearby surveillance video that captured the events
• A possible motive and whether the victim was specifically targeted

How to provide information

Police asked anyone with information to contact the homicide unit directly by calling 704-432-8477 (TIPS). Tips can also be submitted anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.

If you have information that could help investigators, police urged residents to come forward, including anonymously, as detectives work to identify who was responsible and why the shooting happened.