Mom of 5 taking smoke break from Bank of America job is randomly gunned down outside branch, family says

A North Carolina pistillate who worked astir 20 years arsenic a Bank of America worker was shot to death arsenic she smoked a cigaret extracurricular a Charlotte branch, her household believes.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department responded shortly aft 10:30 a.m. Friday to the Bank of America successful the 9700 artifact of Callabridge Court for a shooting. When officers arrived astatine the scene, they recovered 50-year-old Ina Michelle Lang suffering from a gunshot wound. Paramedics pronounced her dormant astatine the scene.

Cops rapidly identified 22-year-old Sam'on Andrew Smith arsenic a fishy and took him into custody. He's facing a first-degree murder charge.

Police person not disclosed a motive for the slaying. The victim's household members told section ABC affiliate WSOC they judge she was attacked portion she was connected her fume break.

Lang's co-workers started a GoFundMe relationship to assistance her hubby rise wealth for her funeral.

"Ina Lang was a beloving parent and a committed woman with her hubby Mike," the relationship statement says. "She had the astir astonishing enactment ethic having been astatine Bank of America for implicit 20 years successful Charlotte wherever her beingness was taken from her implicit a senseless shooting. We volition ever retrieve Ina arsenic 1 of the strongest employees we've worked with and she treated our squad arsenic a family. She brought a motherly tone to our squad and volition ever beryllium remembered arsenic idiosyncratic that ne'er missed an accidental to give, and having a bosom bigger than she knew what to bash with."

WSOC spoke with Smith's uncle, who said the fishy was arrested astatine his mother's house.

"My sister told maine that the constabulary was surrounding the location and she needed maine implicit there," George Wise said successful an interrogation with the outlet.

Wise called his nephew a "good dude" and said helium was ne'er the benignant of idiosyncratic who was "on the artifact oregon retired determination banging."

Smith is astatine the Mecklenburg County Jail without bond.