Fight Breaks Out At Peace Vigil In Northwest Charlotte

CHARLOTTE, NC — Emotions ran high among family and friends of murder victim Daveon Andrews—what started as a march and vigil for peace quickly shifted into chaos.

Police there for the vigil at Rozzelles Ferry and Oregon Street stepped in to break up the fight in the group that just moments before were calling for an end to the violence.

“It’s time for us to do this: be together, breathe together, feel each other. Why we so separate?” said one speaker.

The Dream Team for Peace organized the march and vigil at the area where Andrews’ body was found. Family wore shirts in his memory.

“We’re losing our youth and it’s senseless. It does not make any sense. I just hope we can all come together and try to have a little more love and a whole lot more Jesus,” said the victim’s godmother, Doris Barnes.

CMPD has made two arrests in connection with the four Memorial Day weekend murders. The latest on Thursday, 16-year-old Daniel Cowan, who is charged with armed robbery and conspiracy. Police say he was involved in the murder of Bobby Wesley, Jr. at the Travel Inn in northeast Charlotte Monday morning.

The other arrest is Andre Young-Johnson. He’s charged with the murder of Julian Williams Friday at the Presley Apartments in Uptown on Friday.

Back at the vigil, the group lit candles and Daveon’s grandmother released balloons in his memory.

“That’s my baby and I love him to death,” said Barnes. “He was my baby and my heart is forever broken.”