CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police have arrested a man accused of shooting and killing another during a suspected drug deal last week in northwest Charlotte.
CMPD officers responded to a 911 call just after midnight on Thursday, August 28, in the 200 block of Hoskins Mill Lane. According to court documents, a woman told dispatchers she heard gunshots, then moaning, and saw a man bleeding on her porch.
When officers arrived, they found Sean Nicholas Watson, 48, with a gunshot wound. He was taken to Atrium Health in critical condition but died two days later on Saturday, August 30.
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CMPD said surveillance video from the crime scene showed Watson running toward the caller’s apartment, being chased by two masked men. One of them pointed a gun at him and demanded car keys and a phone. Watson reportedly replied, “I ain’t got nothing” and “I knew it was a setup,” before being shot once and collapsing on the porch…