CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — Queen City News has obtained 911 calls from Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police in connection to the deadly shooting of a 15-year-old boy.
“I just saw my DoorDasher shoot somebody,” a woman is heard saying in one of the 911 calls released on Monday by CMPD to QCN. “I saw him drop off the food and then walk back towards the car, it was a red car, walked back towards there, and just pulled out and started shooting.”
The incident happened around 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 23, in the 400 block of W. 8th Street.
Police said Keshawn Boyd, 27, confessed to using his 9mm pistol to shoot 15-year-old Matthias Crockett. The teen was not armed and was a 9th grader at West Charlotte High School.
According to the 911 call, Boyd had dropped off the DoorDash order and then shot the “driver of a red car.” The young teenager died before he could be taken to a hospital.
Listen to the 911 calls here:
Boyd was arrested at the site of the shooting, according to a CMPD police report. He has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond at this time.
Crockett’s family spoke with Queen City News in January and said he was listening to people “that he thought were his friends,” before the deadly encounter.
The family addressed reports that Crockett was attempting to steal Boyd’s vehicle as he was delivering food as a DoorDasher driver. The family said Crockett was shot seven times.
“You overshot my son seven times. He was shot seven times. You know, he wasn’t a bad kid he just chose that day to do the wrong thing,” Crockett’s father said to QCN.
“That’s not self-defense,” Jeintana Mahatha said to Queen City News in January, addressing the suspect’s claim of why he shot Crockett. “My gun is legal, I want to defend my home and my property too, but I’m not going to hurt a child. I’m not going to hurt anyone over a piece of property. You could have given a warning shot. You could have held him until the police came. That’s what I would have [done]. I understand that was the man’s property…but I also understand…it’s these kids [that are] breaking into these cars these days, especially in Charlotte, you know it’s this generation. So for you to turn around and not even warn him, and to gun a 15-year-old baby down, y’all need to get this stuff correct.”
The family stressed how important it is to monitor your children, especially online.
“The internet is good but the internet can also be bad…y’all need to check their phones, y’all need to check their tablets because where I come from, I checked my kids’ stuff,” Mahatha said.
Cheryl Rod, Crockett’s grandmother, said Crockett came in contact with the wrong people before he was tragically killed.
“He was a small person, he was shy, but he loved his mom, and his mom and him had a great relationship,” Rod said. “Unfortunately he just, somewhere, we don’t know how, we don’t know if it was social media, or what. Somehow he thought someone who was his friend, or people he thought were friends, or he was trying to become friends with, or whatever, he was listening to them, instead of listening to his mom in his ear.”
The family said they have ‘all faith in CMPD Homicide,’ in bringing justice in this case. “The pain we’re experiencing is almost too much to handle but we’re loving on each other.”
The case against Boyd is due back in Mecklenburg County court on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025.
