CHARLOTTE — Tuesday marks the anniversary of a tragic shooting in Uptown Charlotte’s Transportation Center in which a CATS bus driver was shot on her route as passengers ran to get out of the line of fire.
In an exclusive interview, Karen Taylor told Channel 9’s Erica Bryant about that life-altering day and how a relationship dissolved into attempted murder.
Taylor is a survivor. She’s been in and out of the hospital nearly a dozen times since the domestic violence shooting six years ago.
It was 2019. She was on the job as a CATS bus driver when she pulled into the transportation center to drop off passengers when a man opened fire.
She was hit five times. She says she had her entire neck reconstructed and still has bullet fragments lodged in her ear.
The gunman was T.B. Moss — a man she’d been dating for about year. She said he’d never been violent before until one incident made him jealous.
“He tore up my house, tore up my furniture, burnt and bleached all of my clothes,” Taylor said. “He just tormented me.”
When she got a restraining order, Taylors said he violated it, showing up when she was working and escalating the situation even more.
“He came straight here,” she said. “Every time he got out of jail, he came straight there to my job because he knew my schedule.”
Moss was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. He’s now serving more than 20 years in prison.
In the six years since the tragic incident, Taylor had never spoken publicly about what happened.
Today, she has a message she wants other women to know.
“If you find someone who don’t like their mom or their grandma, run,” she said. “Run as fast as you can because that means they don’t now how to treat women out here in this world,” she said.
Taylor is the youngest of seven siblings. She says family support keeps her going.
“It’s been a journey,” she said. “I’m a trooper, and I’m gonna keep on keepin’ on as long as I can.”
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