Najee Pendergrass, a 27-year-old male, Black/African American, died in the early hours of May 17, 2025, after a shooting in west Charlotte. Police were called around 2:40 a.m. to the 2400 block of Freedom Drive, where officers found Najee Pendergrass in a parking lot with gunshot wounds; MEDIC pronounced him dead at the scene. Detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Homicide Unit responded, processed the area for evidence, and began interviewing witnesses as the investiga
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