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CMPD Releases Body Camera Footage Of Fatal Shooting

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department has released body-camera footage from an officer-involved shooting last month that shows a heated exchange with a man wielding a knife before he was fatally shot by police.

On Feb. 2, police arrived in the 3200 block of Timberbrook Drive on a call for service. Officers were responding to a reported suicide attempt and found Charlie Shoupe with a knife. Police say Officer Daniel Flynn was among the officers to respond to the scene.

The body-camera footage from Flynn, which is less than 2 minutes, shows the officer exiting his vehicle and shouting that he didn't want to shoot Shoupe and to get on the ground. Several shots are then fired.

Shoupe was transported by Medic to the hospital where he later died.

Sarah Delia is a Senior Producer for Charlotte Talks with Mike Collins. Sarah joined the WFAE news team in 2014. An Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist, Sarah has lived and told stories from Maine, New York, Indiana, Alabama, Virginia and North Carolina. Sarah received her B.A. in English and Art history from James Madison University, where she began her broadcast career at college radio station WXJM. Sarah has interned and worked at NPR in Washington DC, interned and freelanced for WNYC, and attended the Salt Institute for Radio Documentary Studies.