CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A convicted felon accused of shooting at vehicles on Interstate 485 pleaded guilty Monday to a federal weapons charge, prosecutors announced.

Anil Dabydeen, 40, admitted to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon in connection with the Jan. 8 shooting on I-485 in Charlotte , according to court records.

The incident began around 4 p.m. on Jan. 8 when Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police received multiple 911 calls reporting a man in a white Honda sedan shooting at passing vehicles on the highway near the South Tryon Street exit, court documents show.

Officers arrived to find two victims who had been struck by gunfire while traveling southbound on I-485. A witness video showed a man, later identified as Dabydeen, standing beside a white sedan on the highway's shoulder, brandis

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