CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The parents of a man gunned down in Uptown Charlotte over the 4th of July holiday weekend are making a passionate plea saying “something needs to happen” to make the city safe again.
Twenty-seven year old Gabriel Jacob Lee and 18-year-old Colby Cash Smith are dead after a shooting in a parking lot on North Caldwell Street in Uptown.
“To watch them pick my son up and put him in a body bag with the car still running and the music blaring because he was trying to leave and put him in on that stretcher and wheel him over and throw my child in the back of a van…I know that this is what they do, but to a mother, it feels like he’s a nobody,” Pastor Nekisha Cosey, Lee’s mother said…