CHARLOTTE, N.C. _ Police shot and killed a man in the parking lot of a University City apartment complex on Tuesday afternoon.
A large crowd of protesters gathered as word of the shooting spread and blocked off the road while chanting "Hands up, don't shoot," according to multiple media outlets.
Police said they were searching for someone who had an outstanding warrant at The Village at College Downs complex on Old Concord Road when they saw a man with a gun leave a vehicle.
Police said they approached the man after he got back into the vehicle. The man got out again armed with a firearm "and posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers, who subsequently fired their weapon striking the subject," police said in a statement. "The officers immediately requested Medic and began performing CPR."
At least one officer shot the man, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney told reporters at the scene. The person who was shot was not the person officers were searching for to arrest on the outstanding warrants, Putney said.
Medic took the man to Carolinas Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Police said they will release the man's name once his family is notified.
A police source confirmed that the officer who fired the fatal shot and the man who died were both African-American.
Police said they recovered the firearm the man was holding when police shot him shortly before 4 p.m. Police were also interviewing witnesses.
A woman who said she is the man's daughter claimed that the man was unarmed when he was shot. She live streamed a video from the scene on Facebook for more than an hour after the shooting.
The video went viral, with more than 521,000 views by 9:30 p.m.
In the video, the woman said he was sitting in his vehicle reading a book and waiting for the school bus to drop off his son, according to WBTV, the Charlotte Observer's news partner. She claimed in the video that her father was hit with a Taser and then shot four times, and that he was disabled.
Police declined to respond to the woman's accusations.
As is standard procedure with any officer-involved shooting, CMPD's Internal Affairs Bureau will conduct a separate but parallel investigation to determine whether CMPD policies and procedures were followed.
Per department protocol, the officer will be placed on administrative leave. Police have yet to release his name.
