A night of video games turned deadly early Tuesday in northwest Charlotte, with one teenager shot to death and his friend charged with murder.

On Tuesday night, police identified the shooting victim as 15-year-old Trevell Rembert. Investigators arrested a 15-year-old boy in connection with the shooting, but haven't released his name because he is a juvenile.

Police say the boys were part of a group who gathered at a house in the 2200 block of Tate Street to play "NBA 2K10" on Xbox. All the people in the house, a few hundred feet off Beatties Ford Road in the Washington Heights neighborhood, knew each other.

Police say they don't know how the shooting took place.

Detectives said officers arrived about 1 a.m. and found Trevell dead of a gunshot wound to the upper chest. Witnesses told police several people were playing video games when a shotgun went off.

"I heard a shot," Alphonso Spears, who said he was in the house at the time, told WCNC-TV, the Observer's news partner.

Spears said he ran to the stairway and saw the victim "with a hole in his chest."

Grieving family members gathered at the scene early Tuesday. They said they aren't sure whether the shotgun went off accidentally, or if the shooting might have been the result of an argument over the game or something else.

Judy Williams, founder of Mothers of Murdered Offspring in Charlotte, said her biggest questions are for the parents or whomever owned the gun.

"How could a 15-year-old get a gun?" she asked. "What is going on to where a 15-year-old can get possession of a gun.... Our parents have got to step up and know what's going on with our children."

Officers have not said who owned the gun or whether charges will be brought against that person.



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