Witness heard shooting on Albemarle Road and Regal Oaks

CHARLOTTE, NC– “It was crazy, I was scared for my life,” said shooting witness, Ashley Daniel.

Ashley Daniel says she was pumping gas at the QT on Albemarle and Regal Oaks when she heard about 12 gunshots in the road.

“Shots started firing, so everybody was running trying to take cover, people at the bus stop was running, hiding in the ditch,” said Daniel.

Police quickly closed down Albemarle Road and the turn lane where they found seven or eight shell casings. Daniel says she saw one car pull a U-turn and another take off straight.  Police say the victim kept straight down Albemarle and crashed his Grey BMW into an employee’s car at Meineke. The victim was then taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries. People living in the area couldn’t get to their homes and say a shooting down from their house in the middle of the day is terrifying.

“It’s concerning cause you never know what’s going to happen obviously you just want to try and be safe and make sure you’re not doing anything reckless that could get you in a situation like this,” said East Charlotte resident, LiAnn Linck.

Daniel says everyone at the gas station was making sure no one else was shot, terrified it could have been them.

“You might have shot him like twice but those bullets could have hit anybody, could have hit anybody, so you shot that many rounds, anybody could have been hit and that’s sad,” said Daniel.