conducting a homicide investigation into a shooting death at the
Silver Fox club, 3935 Statesville Avenue. The victim was identified as
Juquina Harris, age 28.
Metro Division officers responded to a call for service which came in
as a shooting in the parking lot of club Silver Fox. When officers
arrived on scene, they found a female lying on the ground outside the
club suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. The victim was
pronounced deceased on scene by Medic at 2:13 a.m. Initial statements
from witnesses in the parking lot area are that several subjects were
involved in a physical altercation in the parking lot near the
entrance to the club. Shortly after the fight began, one of these
subjects pulled a handgun and multiple shots were fired in the parking
lot.
Witnesses on scene stated that a green sedan left the parking lot on
Statesville Avenue heading towards the city. At 2:13 a.m., Providence
Division officers were dispatched to a call which came in from
Carolinas Medical Center stating that a male subject who had been shot
was dropped off by at least one other subject in a green Pontiac four
door vehicle. Providence Division officers have detained at least one
subject who was with the shooting victim when he arrived at the
hospital. The vehicle in which they arrived has been secured and will
be processed by Crime Scene Search. Detectives are in the process of
determining whether or not the subjects who presented themselves to
CMC are related to the initial incident at club Silver Fox.
The tireless work of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Homicide
Unit detectives led to charges being filed against two brothers for
the murder of Jaquina Harris. Earlier Friday, Elijah Akeem Ashford,
DOB: 07/16/1986, was arrested by the Violent Criminal Apprehension
Team shortly after being notified that a murder warrant had been
signed against him. Elijah Ashford was arrested without incident at
the intersection of Tappan Place and Academy Street; he is currently
at police headquarters. He will later be transported to the
Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office, where he will remain in their
custody. At this stage of the investigation, it is believed that the
two subjects who arrived at CMC were bystanders and that one of the
subjects was struck by gunfire.
The Violent Criminal Apprehension Team subsequently arrested Aaron
Ashford (in photo) without incident, at 6602 Wisteria Drive, shortly
after 3:30 p.m., on Friday, November 19, 2010. VCAT worked quickly to
take both brothers into custody. From the time that VCAT began
working the cases until the arrests of both brothers were made, less
than a day had passed. Along with the tireless efforts of Homicide
Unit Detectives, this case was brought to a quick resolution.
