By Joe Marusak
jmarusak@charlotteobserver.com
Posted: Friday, Sep. 03, 2010
A man fatally shot himself early today after shooting his girlfriend in the leg during a domestic dispute at the Pines at Wendover apartments on North Wendover Road.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said they called in a SWAT team after the man barricaded himself inside the apartment shortly after midnight. The man refused to leave the apartment and at some point shot and killed himself, police said.
The woman suffered a non-lifethreatening bullet wound in one of her legs, police said.
Police haven’t yet released the identities of the man and woman this morning.
Observer news partner WCNC-TV reported that the woman is pregnant and that a child was also inside the apartment during the dispute but wasn't injured.
Anyone with information about the dispute is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 704-334-1600.
A compilation of daily news articles from around the United States about deaths (including both people and animals) that appear to occur in the context of a past or present intimate relationship, focusing on 2009-present. (NOTE: this blog is limited to incidents that appear in the media and are captured by our search terms. We recognize this is not an exhaustive portrayal of all deaths resulting from intimate violence.) When is society going to realize intimate violence makes victims of us all?
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