ABOUT THE SUSPECT WHO GOT OUT
OF PRISON ONLY A FEW MONTHS
AGO.
A PLANE FULL OF PASSENGERS
FORCED TO LAND IN NORTH
CAROLINA.
WE JUST SAW ALL THIS SMOKE
COME UP INTO THE CABIN.
THE PROBLEM THAT HAD
EVERYBODY BRACING FOR LANDING.
THIS IS EYEWITNESS NEWS LIVE
TONIGHT AT
11 PM, THANKS FOR BEING WITH US
I'M SCOTT WICKERSHAM.
I'M ERICA BRYANT.
TONIGHT WE ARE LEARNING MORE
ABOUT THIS MAN WHO DIED WHILE
TRYING TO PROTECT HIS COWORKERS
FROM AN ARMED ROBBER.
FAMILY MEMBERS TELL US
DARNELL HARRIS WAS SHOT AND
KILLED AT THAT STEAK AND SHAKE
RESTAURANT WHEN A MAST MAN CAME
IN SHOOTING.
TINA TERRY IS LIVE OUTSIDE
THE RESTAURANT TONIGHT AND TINA
YOU TALKED WITH HIS FAMILY
ABOUT THE TRAGIC LOSS.
Reporter: YES, SUCH A HARD
DAY FOR THIS FAMILY OF COURSE.
THEY DID NOT WANT TO TALK ON
CAMERA BUT THEY WANTED TO LET
US KNOW ABOUT THEIR LOVED ONE.
DARNELL HARRIS THEY SAY THAT HE
HAD A GOOD HEART.
AND LOTS OF LOVE FOR PEOPLE.
THIS IS A PICTURE FAMILY
MEMBERS GAVE US OF DARNELL
HARRIS.
THEY SAY THE LONG TIME EMPLOYEE
AT THE STEAK AND SHAKE WAS
LOVING AND A PROTECTOR BY
NATURE.
SOME SAY IN HIS LAST MOMENTS
TODAY HE WAS TRYING TO PROTECT
OTHERS.
FROM THE GUNMEN WHO CAME INSIDE
THE RESTAURANT.
MY WIFE IS THE RESTAURANT
MANAGER AND SHE CALLED AND
STARTED CRYING, STARTED
SCREAMING AND SAID SOMEONE CAME
IN AND TRIED TO ROB THEM AND
ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES CAME AND
STEPPED IN, AND I GUESS THE GUY
PUT HIS GUN OUT AND SHOT HIM.
Reporter: POLICE SAY THE
ROBBERY SUSPECT SHOT HARRIS.
911 DO
YOU NEED POLICE FIRE OR MEDIC ?
PROBABLY POLICE AND MEDIC,
SHOTS FIRED AT THE STEAK AND
SHAKE.
Reporter: PINEVILLE POLICE
ARRIVED AND DETECTIVES SAY THEY
EXCHANGED GUNFIRE WITH THE
SUSPECT AND IN THE END OF THE
SUSPECT AND A CUSTOMER WERE
INJURED, AND HARRIS DIED ON
SCENE.
IT'S JUST A LOT, IT'S
HEARTBREAKING RIGHT NOW.
Reporter: NOW EVERYONE WHO
KNEW HARRIS IS COMING TO GRIPS
WITH THIS GREAT LOSS.
IT'S MORE THAN JUST SOMEONE
YOU WORK WITH, I'VE BEEN
WORKING WITH HIM FOR MORE THAN
EIGHT YEARS, HE'S FAMILY.
IT'S HURTFUL.
Reporter: AT LAST CHECK THE
OTHER PERSON WHO WAS SHOT, A
CUSTOMER, WAS RUSHED TO THE
HOSPITAL WITH SERIOUS INJURIES,
POLICE HAVE NOT RELEASED THAT
PERSON'S NAME AND CERTAINLY THE
PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY ARE
PRAYING FOR HIS QUICK RECOVERY
TONIGHT.
BACK TO YOU.
WE ARE PRAYING FOR THEM TO,
THANK YOU TINA.
WE ALSO SPOKE TO SEVERAL OTHER
PEOPLE WHO WITNESSED THE
SHOOTING TODAY,
THAT INCLUDES A MOTHER AND
HER EIGHT-MONTH-OLD
WHO WERE COMING OUT AS THE
ROBBER CAME IN.
WALKED RIGHT BESIDE ME, HE
COULD TOUCH ME.
Reporter: MEGAN WALKER SAYS
SHE LOOKED INSIDE WORRIED FOR
HER CHILD'S FATHER WHO WAS
STILL INSIDE THE RESTAURANT.
SHE SAYS SHE SAW THE SUSPECT GO
RIGHT UP TO AN EMPLOYEE AND
SHOOT HIM.
AND STARTED SHOOTING
EVERYWHERE.
HER CHILD'S FATHER SOMEHOW
MANAGED TO GET OUT AND THE TWO
RAN FOR SAFETY.
THEN THEY STARTED RECORDING
THIS CELL PHONE VIDEO.
WE WERE JUMPING IN OUR CAR
AND HE WAS FOLLOWING SHOOTING
BEHIND US.
Reporter: YOU CAN SEE POLICE
MOVE IN AND
ARREST THE SUSPECT AND THEN
MEDIC ARRIVES ON SCENE SHORTLY
AFTER.
THE MAN POLICE SAY IS
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SHOOTING IS
EDDIE DOE AND WE LEARNED HE HAS
A CRIMINAL PAST.
GLENN COUNTS IS LIVE TONIGHT
OUTSIDE THE MECKLENBURG COUNTY
JAIL AND GLENN YOU FOUND OUT
DOE WAS JUST RELEASED FROM
PRISON EARLIER THIS YEAR.
Reporter: OVER THE PAST 10
YEARS JAILS AND CORRECTIONAL
FACILITIES HAVE BEEN LIKE A
SECOND HOME FOR EDDIE DOE AND
IN JANUARY THE SYSTEM GAVE HIM
ANOTHER CHANCE AND A FRESH
START.
THIS IS EDDIE DOE AS HE IS
BEING LOADED INTO AN AMBULANCE
AND TAKEN FROM THE SCENE.
HERE IS HIS MUG SHOT, HE HAS A
LONG CRIMINAL HISTORY.
ASSAULT, FRAUD, ATTEMPTED
ROBBERY.
AND WITH TODAY'S INCIDENT AND
THERE IS SOON TO BE A MURDER
CHARGE.
BUT IT IS NOT THE FIRST TIME
EVEN FOR THAT.
BACK IN OCTOBER 2011 -- TOLD US
OH MY GOD NO WORDS CAN ! HOW I
FEEL, REACTING TO THE MURDER OF
HER 17-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER ARIEL.
SHE HAS SINCE PASSED AWAY, SHE
SPOKE TO US BY PHONE BACK THEN.
I KNOW SOMETHING IN MY HEART
THAT SOMETHING WAS GONNA HAPPEN
TO HER.
Reporter: ARIEL WAS KILLED
AT THIS HOUSE, TWO MEN WERE
ARRESTED AND ONE WAS EDDIE DOE.
EVEN THOUGH HE
WAS CHARGED WITH FIRST-DEGREE
MURDER IN 2011 PROSECUTORS PLEA
BARGAINED IT DOWN TO ACCESSORY
AFTER THE FACT FIRST-DEGREE
MURDER IN OCTOBER 2013.
HE WAS SENTENCED TO 87 TO 114
MONTHS IN PRISON, MINUS CREDIT
FOR TIME SERVED.
HE SPENT NINE YEARS BEHIND BARS
AT ON JANUARY 14 OF THIS YEAR
HE WALKED OUT OF ALBEMARLE
CORRECTIONAL CENTER A FREE MAN.
TONIGHT
WE TALKED TO ONE OF THE
OFFICERS WHO ACTUALLY WORKED ON
THAT CASE, AND HE TOLD US THAT
BACK THEN THOUGH SHOULDER -- DOE
SHOWED NO REMORSE AND HE WAS
CONVINCED HE SHOULD NOT HAVE
BEEN LET OUT OF PRISON.
TONIGHT HE IS STILL IN THE
HOSPITAL, NO WORD ON HIS
CONDITION.
BACK TO YOU.
GLENN THANK YOU.
AS FOR THE TWO PINEVILLE
OFFICERS INVOLVED IN THE
SHOOTING TODAY, THEY ARE ON
LEAVE RIGHT NOW AND THAT IS
STANDARD ON LEAVE WITH PAY.
OF COURSE WE HAVE A LOT OF
QUESTIONS IN THIS
INVESTIGATION, BE SURE TO