The unrest in Charlotte came after two other police-involved deadly shootings in the last week. 
 
 First came the shooting of a teenager in Columbus, Ohio, who had been brandishing a BB gun. Two days later, on Friday, was the shooting death in Tulsa, Okla., of a man who had his hands above his head before an officer opened fire. 
 
 And then it was Charlotte, where Mr. Scott, 43, black like the other two, was shot by a police officer in a parking space marked “Visitor” outside an unremarkable apartment complex. On Wednesday that parking space was both a shooting site and a shrine, and Charlotte was a city on edge, the latest to play a role in what feels like a recurring, seemingly inescapable tape loop of American tragedy. 
 
 “To see this happen multiple times — just time after time — it’s depressing, man,” said Tom Jackson, 25, who works with mentally disabled people. He didn’t know Mr. Scott but was drawn here nonetheless, one of many strangers and friends who came to pay their respects and make sense of their sorrow. 
 
 In addition to the fatal attacks on police officers in Baton Rouge and Dallas, it was another grim snapshot of America’s continuing crisis in black and blue, this moment amplified by presidential politics. And as usual, there was very little consensus on what went wrong and how to fix it. 
 
 At a news conference on Wednesday, Kerr Putney, chief of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg police, said officers had found the gun that the police said Mr. Scott had brandished before an officer, who is also black, fatally shot him and were examining police video of the encounter that unfolded as Mr. Scott stepped out of a car. ||||| One person was shot during protests in uptown Charlotte that turned violent Wednesday night. 
 
 The person is on life support, in critical condition, the City of Charlotte said on Twitter, correcting its earlier tweet that the person had died. 
 
 Medic said on Twitter that it was treating the patient for a gunshot wound en route to Carolinas Medical Center at about 8:45 p.m. 
 
 The person was shot in the area of North College and East Trade streets. 
 
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 Medic said it was responding to “multiple incidents uptown related to the situation in the College Street area” but was no more specific. 
 
 The shooting was “civilian on civilian,” the city tweeted. “@CMPD did not fire shot.” 
 
 The Charlotte Clergy Coalition for Justice questioned the city’s account. The coalition said several of its members were just 10 feet from the victim when he was shot. 
 
 “I saw the man go down on the pavement,” Minister Steve Knight of Missiongathering Christian Church in Charlotte said in a statement from the coalition. “It was an ambush. The victim was shot while he stood between two ministers, and we believe he was shot by police. We would like to see surveillance video from the surrounding area that may have captured the shooting to determine who was responsible for the shooting.” 
 
 Moments earlier, police fired tear gas at protesters at the entrance to the Omni Hotel in uptown Charlotte. Loud booms sounded, and police said explosives had been used. 
 
 “Your life is in danger, you need to move!” police in riot gear yelled. 
 
 Four Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers suffered non-life threatening injuries during Wednesday’s protests, the department tweeted at 1:30 a.m. Thursday. 
 
 A WCNC-TV reporter and cameraman were taken by ambulance to the hospital after being attacked in uptown, the station reported. 
 
 At 9:45 p.m., police fired rubber bullets at the crowd. 
 
 At the request of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney, the State Highway Patrol is sending in troopers to assist CMPD, Gov. Pat McCrory said late Wednesday. 
 
 “The state has many additional assets nearby to assist,” McCrory said. “Any violence directed toward our citizens or police officers or destruction of property should not be tolerated.” 
 
 N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper said he spoke to Mayor Jennifer Roberts and offered her the full assistance of the N.C. Department of Justice. “Violence will not bring justice,” Cooper said. “I urge everyone in Charlotte tonight to heed the call for peaceful demonstration. Already tonight we have seen civilians, police and emergency responders injured. This must stop.” 
 
 Given the “ongoing civil unrest,” Bank of America told its employees not to report to their uptown offices on Thursday. 
 
 Shortly before 9 p.m., the Charlotte Area Transit System discontinued street car service, closed the uptown Transportation Center and moved it to Carson Street. Hours later, CATS stopped Lynx service and ended bus service at 12:30 a.m. Thursday. 
 
 Lynx light rail and bus services were suspended until further notice, CATS said at 12:30 a.m. 
 
 Protests had remained peaceful in uptown on Wednesday, after the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott. But the scene turned chaotic after 8:30 p.m., when protesters went from Marshall Park to the EpiCentre dining and entertainment complex and the Omni on Trade Street. 
 
 Businesses in the EpiCentre closed hours earlier in anticipation of the protests. Police also blocked off streets as the situation deteriorated outside the Omni. The Charlotte Hornets NBA team store, a CVS and the EpiCentre Sundries were later looted. 
 
 Several hundred protesters had gathered at the Omni before tear gas began scattering the crowd. 
 
 Protesters blocked Trade and Tryon streets at about 8 p.m. and then moved to the EpiCentre. 
 
 Hours earlier, a group of two dozen protesters stood silently in front of the Bank of America Tower at the same intersection. They held signs reading “Black Lives Matter” and “Stop Killing Us.” 
 
 Protesters then gathered outside Charlotte-Mecklenburg police headquarters before gathering at Marshall Park for a 7 p.m. rally. 
 
 Scott’s wife, meanwhile, issued a statement calling for protests to remain peaceful. Do not damage property, she urged. 
 
 The protest at Marshall Park was peaceful at 7:30 p.m. 
 
 Speakers using a bullhorn questioned why police shot Scott. Protesters said that even if Scott had a gun, as Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said, North Carolina is an open carry state where it is legal to have a firearm. 
 
 The protesters also criticized police for their response Tuesday night when officers used tear gas and batons to disperse crowds on Old Concord Road near where Scott was fatally shot. 
 
 “You were unprepared,” one protester yelled, addressing police. “You escalated it. … You came to us with billy clubs.” 
 
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 Alex Gray of Charlotte said he was “not really big on chanting. But just to be here to support … I mean, there are a lot of people who have lost their lives for this reason or that reason. It’s just disheartening. It would be nice to see some change, obviously it’s not going to be anything that happens overnight, but it has to start somewhere. … If you’re not an actor, you’re a factor, so I’d rather be part of the movement than not.” 
 
 Master Allah of Charlotte said, “If you read (my sign), it says if we were really free, we wouldn’t be dealing with this. What it means is, in the history of America, we have never been seen as free. We wasn’t brought to this country to be equal, and now we’re at a point to where we’re being destroyed. 
 
 “I think with the power of media – Facebook, Twitter, all the social media – now it’s something that’s being seen on the daily. It can’t be denied. We gotta talk about it because we’ve got a real problem.” 
 
 Earlier Wednesday afternoon, pockets of the city were on edge, with some uptown businesses apparently sending workers home early over uncertainty about further protests. The Charlotte Chamber also urged businesses in uptown and University City to “remove or chain down all tables, chairs, signs or planters.” 
 
 At the afternoon silent protest at the Bank of America Tower, Andrew Monroe said the gathering was organized informally by a group of black professionals. “What we want to do is show we’re not dangerous,” he said. “We want to show the world it’s not thugs out here.” 
 
 Monroe said black people deserve to be safe in the streets and don’t feel the way in the spate of recent police shootings. 
 
 Across town at UNCC, students gathered at the Union and laid down in protest.
– Protests in Charlotte over Tuesday's police shooting of a black man turned violent on their second night Wednesday—one person was shot and seriously wounded, reports the Charlotte Observer. (Initial reports that the man was dead have been walked back; he is reportedly on life support.) City officials say the victim was not shot by police, describing it as "civilian on civilian" violence, reports the New York Times. The unrest comes in the wake of Tuesday's shooting of 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott and two competing versions of what happened: Family members say he was shot while unarmed and holding a book, while police say he had a gun and but refused repeated orders to drop it. Adding to the tension were police shootings this week in Tulsa and Ohio.