Police seek suspect, offer reward after series of shootings across Charlotte, North Carolina

North Carolina police are searching for a suspect in a series of five shootings in the Charlotte area that officials believe are connected. 

Police responded to the first reported shooting at around 1:05 a.m. on Tuesday, July 9. A man inside his vehicle had a gunshot wound and was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim, identified by CBS News affiliate WBTV as Mustaffa Muhammad, 58, is believed to have been shot by someone driving by, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department said. 

Several more shooting incidents were reported in the next half hour. A bicyclist called police to say that he had been shot at around 1:09 a.m., and another victim's car was struck by gunfire "a short time later." Neither person was injured.