By Steve Lyttle
slyttle@charlotteobserver.com

Dominic Mahone was standing on the dance floor of the Breakfast Club in Charlotte's

Karizma Sergeant

uptown early last Sept. 10 when witnesses said a woman calmly walked up, pointed a gun at Mahone's head, and fired twice.

The woman fled, and Mahone died a few hours later.

On Tuesday morning, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police announced an arrest in the case.

Karizma Sergeant, 21, was charged Tuesday morning with first-degree murder in Mahone's death, police say. It was the fourth time she was arrested since the Breakfast Club shooting -- with one of those coming just four days after the uptown homicide.

Police are not releasing a motive in the case or saying how Sergeant and Mahone might have been connected. At the time, detectives said they did not think there was a link between the shooter and the victim.

Mahone, 25, was at the Breakfast Club, a popular nightspot at Sixth and Caldwell streets, for a private party. Club workers told police the shooter seemed to know exactly what she was doing, buty nobody recognized her or the blue Chevrolet four-door that she escaped in. Police said it appeared as if the woman was in the club only a short time before the shooting.

It was the seventh arrest for Sergeant in the last three years, according to Mecklenburg County jail records.

Four days after the Breakfast Club shooting, Sergeant was charged with forgery. On Dec. 23, she was arrested on charges of fleeing to elude arrest and accessory after the fact. And on Jan. 4, she was charged with hit-and-run. Sergeant also was arrested in July and October of 2008, and in February of last year.

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