UPDATE: Officials say Brandon Brewer was sentenced to at least 37 years in prison after pleading guilty to a 2014 shooting that injured to CMPD officers and a 10-year-old girl.
Brewer’s trial began on Monday, according to officials, for the charges of three counts of attempted first-degree murder, three counts of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill inflicting serious injury, two counts of assault with a firearm on a law enforcement officer, five counts of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and being a violent habitual felon.
Officials say Brewer asked to plead guilty following the testimony of the first witness.
Brewer pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill inflicting serious injury, two counts of assault with a firearm on a law enforcement officer, five counts of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. He was then sentenced to 445-571 months in prison.
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[Original post on August 20, 2014]
CHARLOTTE, NC — A man accused of shooting two police officers and a 10-year-old girl is reportedly on suicide watch. Newly released warrants show Brandon Brewer also shot at a third officer.
Brewer was supposed to face a judge Tuesday, but that didn’t happen. He faces 21 charges including attempted first degree murder. CMPD arrested Brewer on Sunday after a SWAT standoff on Kingville Drive. Officers were responding to a 911 call about a man shooting in the neighborhood.
WCCB has obtained the 911 call in which Marguerite Jackson tells the dispatcher about her encounter with the suspect:
“She was like ‘Ma’am can I please use your phone because he got a gun and he threatened to shoot me and my daughter,'” said Jackson. “He shoot it towards my direction, towards, like, her. I don’t know, he just aimed it and shot.”
Pellets hit officers Kevin Stafford and Eric Bojaj as well as 10-year-old Shanise Laney. All three are okay. Brewer remains in jail Tuesday night on $850,000 bond. He has a bond hearing August 28.
