Channel 9 has learned more about a man who was shot by police after they say he pulled out a gun. The shooting happened Thursday morning near a convenience store along Beatties Ford Road.
Reporter Glenn Counts talked to the man’s aunt who said he has been dealing with mental health struggles for years and also suffers from a learning disability.
Timothy Moore is still recovering in the hospital after being shot in the shoulder.
PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Man charged after being shot by officer in west Charlotte, police say
“He’s ok, he say he didn’t do nothing wrong,” Wanda Moore said. “His mind is like a 10 year old, IQ, his IQ is very low.”
Moore told Counts that when her nephew was a child, he would often make crank phone calls.
“Call the police and the fire department and tell them that there were shootouts in the neighborhood and people was dying, he used to make all these false alarm calls.”
Police said that Moore was allegedly involved in drug activity. When officers tried to stop it, he allegedly took off running and pulled a large handgun from his waist and an officer shot him.