Demetrius Antonio Montgomery, 25, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, said police spokesman Officer Bob Fey.
“This is an ongoing investigation,” the spokesman said when asked if there were other suspects.
The two officer were shot late Saturday during a struggle outside an apartment complex and died early Sunday.
Sean Clark, 34, and Jeffrey Shelton, 35, were the first officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg department fatally shot in the line of duty in more than a decade.
“It’s a real tragedy for us, the officers, for the families, for the communities, that we’ve lost two in one incident,” said Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Chief Darrel Stephens.
Stephens said the two officers were responding to a disturbance call around 10:30 p.m. Saturday night at the apartment complex in east Charlotte. They were shot around 11:15 p.m. in the parking lot during a struggle. Neither fired their weapon, Stephens said.
Clark and Shelton were taken to Carolinas Medical Center, where they later died. Clark had been with the police department for a year, and Shelton had worked there since 2001.
