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Insets, top to bottom: Sam’on Smith (Mecklenburg County Jail) and Ina Michelle Lang (GoFundMe). Background: The Bank of America in Charlotte, North Carolina, where Smith allegedly killed Lang (WSOC/YouTube).
Officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department responded to a reported shooting at the Bank of America branch located on Callabridge Court shortly after 10:30 a.m. on Friday. Upon arrival, they discovered 50-year-old Ina Michelle Lang with a gunshot wound. Emergency medical personnel pronounced her dead at the scene.
The police swiftly identified and apprehended 22-year-old Sam’on Andrew Smith, who has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the incident.
Authorities have yet to release any information regarding the motive behind the shooting. However, Lang’s family informed local ABC affiliate WSOC that they suspect she was attacked during a smoke break outside the bank.
Police have not disclosed a motive for the slaying. The victim’s family members told local ABC affiliate WSOC they believe she was attacked while she was on her smoke break.
Lang’s co-workers started a GoFundMe account to help her husband raise money for her funeral.
“Ina Lang was a beloving mother and a committed wife with her husband Mike,” the account description says. “She had the most amazing work ethic having been at Bank of America for over 20 years in Charlotte where her life was taken from her over a senseless shooting. We will always remember Ina as one of the strongest employees we’ve worked with and she treated our team as a family. She brought a motherly spirit to our team and will always be remembered as someone that never missed an opportunity to give, and having a heart bigger than she knew what to do with.”
WSOC spoke with Smith’s uncle, who said the suspect was arrested at his mother’s house.
“My sister told me that the police was surrounding the house and she needed me over there,” George Wise said in an interview with the outlet.
Wise called his nephew a “good dude” and said he was never the type of person who was “on the block or out there banging.”
Smith is at the Mecklenburg County Jail without bond.