A family is fighting for justice after prosecutors dropped the charges against two people in a shooting that left a teenager dead.
Savion Lockhart was 17 when he was shot and killed on Turtle Point Road last July in Charlotte. Two people were originally arrested and charged for his death.
Channel 9′s Ken Lemon looked into the reason why charges were dropped, and court documents say that prosecutors couldn’t prove if the killing was intentional murder or self-defense.
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Lockhart’s grandfather said he wasn’t supposed to be with the people accused in the shooting, and he should still be alive. He worries the original suspects changed their story to get out of trouble.
“It’s just so hard for us,” said Oscar Bing, Lockhart’s grandfather.
He spoke to Lemon on Friday sitting at arm’s length from a candle that has his grandson’s picture on it.
Bing, a little weary on this cloudy Friday, said any flicker of hope was blown out when charges were dropped against the people accused of Lockhart’s killing.