ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WSPA) – Officers with the Asheville Police Department are investigating a shooting that left a 68-year-old man in critical condition on Wednesday.
According to the police department, officers responded to the 40 block of Mount Clare Avenue around 10:45 p.m. to investigate reports of a gunshot wound.
Upon arrival, officers located a man suffering from four gunshot wounds.
Officers administered medical aid until EMS arrived. The man was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition.
Detectives later identified the shooter as 23-year-old Terrence Lamont Burt Jr.
Burt was arrested with the help of the Weaverville Police Department and is being charged with attempted first-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, inflicting serious injury and discharging a weapon into occupied property.
He was booked into the Buncombe County Detention Center under a $500,000 bond.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Asheville Police Department at (828)-252-1110.
