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Melakah Corbette

Case from Charlotte, NC dated Feb 01, 2024

Victim Details

Melakah Corbette

Male

Black / African American

Charlotte

NC

2024-02-01

17

Melakah

Corbette

07/06/2026

Case Description

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On February 1, 2024, at approximately 1:15 a.m., 17-year-old Melakah Ajani Corbette was fatally shot on Pitts Drive near L.C. Coleman Park in Charlotte, North Carolina. Officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) responded to reports of gunfire and discovered Corbette with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Corbette was a student at Julius L. Chambers High School and had recently signed with a modeling agency in New York, with plans to pu ...
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  • Queen City News: 17-year-old boy identified in deadly NW Charlotte shooting: CMPD
  • https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article284944152.html
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