Man Shot To Death in Asheville Apartment Complex
Russell Bradley
Shooting Victim Louis Fleming
Asheville Police are investigating an early morning homicide Saturday. At about 4:07am Saturday morning police were dispatched to Hillcrest Apartments in response to a shooting.
Officers found a male victim slumped over in the driver’s seat of a van that had struck the front porch of an apartment building. The victim had an apparent gunshot wound to his abdomen and was pronounced dead by responding emergency medical personnel.
The victim is identified as Louis Andrew Fleming, date of birth, 03/19/60, of Asheville. A female that was apparently seated in the passenger seat of the van was shot in the face and is currently being treated by Mission Hospitals. The victims are not residents of Hillcrest and it is believed that they may have been participating in a drug deal at the time of the shooting. The incident is currently under investigation by the Criminal Investigations Division. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the police department at 828-252-1110 or Asheville-Buncombe CrimeStoppers at 255-5050.
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