A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to an arrest in the murder eight months ago of Tiffany Wright and her baby.


The Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officials said Thursday their department and Gov. Bev Perdue's office are teaming to offer the reward in the unsolved killing, which happened Sept. 14, 2009, on Mallard Creek Road in north Charlotte.


Police responded about 6 a.m. that day to a report of a shooting. They found Wright, 15, a high school student, suffering from a gunshot wound. She was taken to Carolinas Medical Center and died soon afterward. Doctors delivered her baby, Aaliyah Faye Wright, by Cesarean section, but the baby died five days later.


Tiffany Wright had been shot three times and died of a gunshot wound to the head, according to a copy of the autopsy obtained earlier this year by the Observer.


Detectives initially named Wright's adoptive brother, Royce Mitchell, 36, as a "person of interest." And WCNC-TV, the Observer's news partner, reported in March that the father of the baby was 17-year-old Adrian Powell.


CMPD spokesman Rob Tufano would not comment Thursday if either Mitchell or Powell is considered a "person of interest" in the case, saying the investigation is ongoing.


Anyone with information in the case is asked to call 704-432-TIPS and speak directly with a Homicide detective. Or trips can be called to Crime Stoppers, 704-334-1600.