CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - David Freeman was standing in the median at Freedom Drive and Morehead Street when he watched the end of a police chase erupt into a gunfight on Thursday.

“I’m a veteran, so I heard the first shots. I was up on that hill, I was gone,” Freeman said. “I was freaking out.”

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said 28-year-old Joseph Andrade shot at police officers during the chase and after it ended in the intersection, before those officers returned fire and killed Andrade.

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Andrade is alleged to have shot two people minutes prior on North Hoskins Road, police said.

One of those victims, 38-year-old Justin Carlton, later died.

Carlton’s di

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