32-year-old Jerome Planter is charged with the homicide of Lanard Gaddy, 33. The victim was shot and killed on June 17, 2023 at the Fusion Hookah Lounge on Independence Blvd. Charlotte, NC during Juneteenth weekend. 4 people were shot total.
Several people were at the Fusion Hookah Lounge at 2 a.m. when a fight broke out. Several gunshots were fired and 4 people total were shot in this quadruple shooting.
Lanard was among the 4 shot, he died on the scene. The other 3 people shot were taken to the hospital and treated, some of the victims had life threatening injuries.
Click here to see video of the shooting at Fusion Hookah Lounge.
As a result of the continued investigation, detectives with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Homicide Unit identified Jerome as a suspect in connection to this case.On June 19, 2023, Jerome was arrested and charged with murder, assault with a deadly weapon with the Intent to kill inflicting serious injury (3 counts), and possession of firearm by a convicted felon.
7 people were murdered on Juneteenth weekend 2020 in Charlotte.
Juneteenth is a federal holiday meant to celebrate blacks being freed from the terrorism of slavery in the USA. Slavery in the United States went on for 300 years, even after the Declaration of Independence was declared, which established that all Americans are free.
Slavery ended in 1865, but it took around 3 years for all slaves to be freed due to the word spreading to vast territories in the south, and greedy slave owners that refused to free the black slaves.
