Last year, Charlotte ended 2016 with 66 murders. Just barely into April, the count is up to 25, the latest being a man who murdered his parents – they had legal custody of their grandchild from the killer’s brother, who was also possibly murdered last year.
Almost all of the deaths have been committed by black males living in predominantly black neighborhoods, and most of them appear to be people with no Charlotte roots – but rather the people that Barack Obama encouraged to move here at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. “People here don’t even have metal bars on their windows!”