CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - Three homicides across two counties in one night were linked to a convicted felon from Monroe with a lengthy criminal record.

Adam Latif Mercado, 34, was arrested in connection with the double homicide of 52-year-old Matthew Charles Moody and 49-year-old James Curtis Wallace in Monroe, as well as 68-year-old Gerald Barnes in Charlotte.

Mercado’s arrest took place on Friday, Nov. 7, in Anson County.

Barnes was found dead with apparent trauma on Central Avenue in Plaza Midwood around 9 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said.

Hours later, just after midnight going into Friday, Monroe police were called to an apartment on Nelda Drive for a welfare check. There, they found Moody and Wallace had been killed.

Criminal history

Mercado’s first felony

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