CMPD: Keith Lamont Scott Was Holding Gun, Not Book

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — CMPD Police Chief Kerr Putney and Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts held a news conference Wednesday morning following the fatal officer-involved shooting of a man in Charlotte.

Keith Lamont Scott was shot and killed by CMPD Officer Brentley Vinson, according to police.

The shooting was reported Tuesday afternoon just before 4pm on Old Concord Road near Bonnie Lane and John Kirk Drive.

Police say officers with the Metro Division Crime Reduction Unit were searching for a suspect with an outstanding warrant on him at The Village at College Downs apartment complex.

Officers say during that search they noticed a subject, later identified as Keith Lamont Scott, inside a vehicle in the apartment complex. Scott exited the vehicle armed with a firearm, according to police. Officers say Scott got back into the vehicle and then the officers started to approach him.

That’s when police say Scott got back out of the vehicle armed with a firearm and posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers who subsequently fired their weapon, striking Scott. The officers immediately requested MEDIC and began performing CPR, according to a news release.

Scott was pronounced dead on the scene.