- Police said they responded to a shooting in south Charlotte Friday evening.

Officers were called to the area of Fairwood Avenue near South Tryon Street and said they found a man who had been shot.

Decario Bethea, 24, later died at a hospital.

Bethea was outside the Southside Apartments and got into a verbal altercation with two others.


Bethea was shot during the argument. It appeared the shooter and Bethea knew each other, police said.


Channel 9 arrived on the scene around 5:30 p.m. and saw the area roped off with crime scene tape.

Police said no one is in custody.

They have not released details about the circumstances of the shooting.