North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory has declared a state of emergency for Charlotte and deployed the National Guard and High Patrol to the city as a second night of violent protests went into the night.

The protests are in reaction to the shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott by a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer.

Seven police officers have also been hurt in the protests.

  • Protesters upset over Tuesday night police shooting of black man
  • Charlotte-Mecklenburg officer who shot him was black
  • Police said Keith Lamont Scott had a gun; others say Scott had a book
  • Cop cars destroyed; 12 officers injured

A protester in the second night of protests in Charlotte was critically injured, not killed as previously reported.

The city of Charlotte originally said a protester had been shot by a civilian during protests earlier Wednesday night. But now they say that report was wrong.

The shooting happened just before 4 p.m. Tuesday on Old Concord Road.   

On Tuesday night, protesters blocked parts of Interstate 85 and television footage showed some apparently looting semi-trucks and setting their contents on fire at one point. Video from the scene showed protesters on the highway facing a line of law enforcement officers. 

A police car was vandalized during protests. Less than five miles away, wooden pallets barricaded the entrance to a Walmart store that had apparently been looted.

CMPD says 12 officers were hurt during the protest. One officer was hit in the face with a rock. Medic says they transported eight patients — seven officers and one civilian.

The man killed has been identified as 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott. The officer has been identified as Brentley Vinson.

Dozens gathered by the apartment complex to comfort the family — many of them frustrated because they say the shooting is one we've seen so much in the news lately — an unarmed African-American man being shot by police. 

The department says officers were searching for a suspect with an outstanding warrant at the Village at College Downs. 

Officers say they saw a man get out of a car with some kind of gun. We talked with the victim's brother and he says his brother was waiting in his car for his son to get home from school when the shooting happened. 

"The police came out with no badge, nothing. I guess he was one of them jump out boys, undercover and he yelled ‘gun’ and shot him four times. There was no gun, it was a book in the car," he said.

In a conference on Wednesday morning, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney said that Keith Scott was armed with a handgun. 

Students from UNCC heard about the shooting from social media and rushed to the scene.

"How are we supposed to react when we see this all the time. We just seen a similar situation happen yesterday, a couple of months of ago. We've seen it millions of times and how are we supposed to react?" said DeAndre Willaims, the NAACP president at UNCC.

Scott was taken to the hospital but later died. Chief Kerr Putney said earlier that he was not the suspect they were initially searching for.     

Vinson is now on administrative leave, which is standard protocol during any officer-involved shooting.