Overview
- Police were called around 10:47 a.m. to an Edible Arrangements in a busy shopping center on Matthews–Mint Hill Road for a child custody exchange.
- A male subject produced a firearm when officers arrived, exchanged gunfire with them, and was shot and killed at the scene.
- Two Mint Hill police officers were injured and remain hospitalized in critical condition at Atrium Health CMC Main Hospital.
- The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation is assisting the Mint Hill Police Department with the investigation.
- Authorities have not publicly identified the suspect or detailed what led to the confrontation, and witnesses reported seeing an injured officer helped from the store.