At a news conference this morning, Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts called Tuesday's shooting a "tragedy."
Here is how police say the shooting unfolded.
Shortly before 4 p.m. Tuesday, officers with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police's Metro Division Crime Reduction Unit were searching an apartment complex for a suspect with an outstanding warrant.
"Officers observed a subject inside a vehicle in the apartment complex" and "the subject exited the vehicle armed with a firearm," the police said.
"Officers observed the subject get back into the vehicle at which time they began to approach the subject," the police said.
The shooting
Officers gave loud verbal commands telling him to get out, police said this morning. That's when Scott got out of the car with a handgun, police said.
Police said the man "posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers who subsequently fired their weapon striking the subject."
He was taken to a hospital where he was declared dead, police said.
Officers recovered a handgun "in close proximity" to Scott's body, police said.
Keith Scott, the victim
The victim was identified as 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott.
Scott's family said he wasn't armed, ABC affiliate WSOC reported. The family said Scott had a book in his hand and was waiting for his son to be dropped off from school, WSOC said.
Police say a weapon was seized from the scene but no book was found.
The officer
The officer involved in the shooting was Brentley Vinson, who has worked for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department for two years, the department said.
"As is standard procedure with any officer involved shooting, Officer Vinson has been placed on paid administrative leave," the department said.
The investigation
This morning, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said there is a lot of video from the scene, including body cameras from the officers who responded. Vinson was not wearing a body camera, he said.
Police said detectives were reviewing videos and interviewing witnesses as part of the investigation.
Putney said he has not seen all of the video at this point, but later added, "I don't know that [Scott] definitively pointed the weapon specifically towards an officer."
Putney said overnight that the outstanding warrants that prompted the officers' arrival were not specific to Scott, adding, "We don’t know if there is a connection of the deceased with the suspect we were looking for."
"At this point, all we know is there, in the apartment complex parking lot, this subject gets out with a weapon, they engage him and one of the officers felt a lethal threat and fired his weapon because of it," Putney said overnight.
The Internal Affairs Bureau is conducting "a separate but parallel investigation to determine whether CMPD policies and procedures were adhered to," the police said.
The riots
After Scott was shot, protesters took to the Charlotte streets overnight, shutting down Interstate 85. They opened up 18-wheelers, emptying the contents onto the highway and setting boxes on fire.
The police chief said this morning that officers heroically responded to the scene to help. Sixteen officers were injured and multiple vehicles were damaged, the police said. One person was arrested.
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