You hear the name, see this title and might think this is a troubling version of the cartoon character where Lucy got Charlie in trouble again.

It’s not.

What happened years ago in Great Falls was anything but funny.

In fact, it was as tense a situation I’ve seen in 14 years covering everything and anything in television news.

There was a murder that caused a lot of racial tension. I wondered if I was safe. That’s something I almost never think about – and I’ve seen a lot.

The locals will tell you racial tension has been in the town for years, well before the shooting, and the murder brought it to a boiling point.

Charlie Brown, Jr., is black.

His accused killer Shawn Wilson is white.

Investigators say Wilson was drinking in a bar on the main street through town, hit on a couple of women in the bar, was rejected, then went outside and emptied about two clips of ammunition, shooting across the street.

Some of the bullets went into the homes. One struck an elderly man as he was opening his door to see what was going on.

Another bullet hit Charlie Brown, Jr. His father says the bullet went in the leg, up through the chest and out his son’s back.

Charlie Brown, Jr., was in the wrong place at the wrong time – in the line of fire, allegedly, from Shawn Wilson’s gun.

At the time, police said the scene was too tense to send an ambulance crew in.

Charles Brown, Sr., said he kept asking police “Why aren’t you helping my son?”

Afterwards, church leaders and the NAACP held town meetings to try to calm tensions. Everywhere you went people were talking about the shooting. State law enforcement officials stayed in the town for a while to make sure those tensions didn’t erupt into something worse.

By the way, I ran into the man who was shot while opening his door and Charles Brown, Sr., while at the Chester County Courthouse the other day. They were there waiting for Shawn Wilson’s murder trial to start. We were there for another story. Charles Brown, Sr., recognized me. I had been in his house years ago getting a picture of his son and interviewing him for the story.

Now, here we are four years later – with the trial under way.