North Carolina police release new info about Karen Baker’s ATM slaying

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Division (CMPD) continues to seek for certainly one of two suspects needed within the brazen, July 13 capturing of mom and grandmother Karen Baker.

Baker, 48, was trying to withdraw money from an ATM on the 9600 block of College Metropolis Boulevard in Charlotte simply earlier than 6 a.m. when somebody approached her and shot her to dying. The suspect then fled the scene in a black, 2011 or 2012 Dodge Charger with manufacturing facility rims, in keeping with police.

“On the finish of the day, what hurts most is there’s not one d–n factor I can do to deliver my mother again,” Baker’s son, Michael, mentioned throughout a Thursday press convention. “So I am asking you guys, if anyone [can] attain out to those detectives and police division and provides them any info that y’all can, my household would recognize it greater than anyone would ever know.”

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Authorities launched new photos of one of many suspects in Baker’s killing and his getaway car on Thursday. CMPD is providing a $5,000 reward for info resulting in his arrest.

Michael advised reporters that he and his household come from a “small city” in contrast to Charlotte — North Carolina’s largest metropolis. Baker additionally misplaced certainly one of her sons 5 years in the past, which Michael mentioned was “robust” for her to recuperate from.

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His mom “introduced one thing to Charlotte that Charlotte ain’t ever seen earlier than,” Michael mentioned. “Again dwelling, it was a small city. [There weren’t any] gangs. The one gangs we had again dwelling had been gangs of rooster and cattle. However what my mother delivered to Charlotte … it did not matter whether or not you had been having a foul day, good day — she was the kind of individual to make you are feeling higher it doesn’t matter what you had been going by way of.”

He added that he has “religion” CMPD officers will catch the perpetrator in his mom’s killing. 

Baker’s household launched an announcement to Fox 46 Charlotte after her dying, saying Heaven gained “one of many strongest, most loving, caring individuals you can ever meet.”

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“She was beloved by [armies]. She would transfer mountains for a stranger. She was one in a billion,” the assertion learn.

Authorities are asking anybody with details about the case to contact 704-432-TIP.