2024 Charlotte shootout
| 2024 Charlotte shootout | |
|---|---|
| Location | 5525 Galway Drive, Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Date | April 29, 2024 1:50 – 4:56 p.m. (EDT) |
| Target | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police and United States Marshal officers. |
Attack type | Mass shooting, mass murder, shootout, resisting arrest |
| Weapons | AR-15–style rifle .40-caliber handgun |
| Deaths | 5 (including the perpetrator) |
| Injured | 5 (4 by gunfire) |
| Perpetrator | Terry Clark Hughes Jr. |
On April 29, 2024, multiple police officers were involved in a shootout in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States while serving active felony warrants on 39-year-old Terry Clark Hughes Jr., resulting in the deaths of three members of a U.S. Marshal task force and one local police officer. Police allege that Hughes initiated the event by firing on the officers as they approached his residence. After the police began returning fire, additional gunfire came from inside the residence, which officers say may have come from Hughes firing more shots while down before succumbing at the scene.