A Hickory
41-year-old Joshua Todd Soule was initially charged with
driving while impaired and fleeing to elude arrest.
Reports say a Gaston officer attempted to stop Soule Sunday
evening as he was drifting in and out of his lane.
In attempts to escape law enforcement, Soule reportedly ran
a stop light and proceeded through an intersection at a high rate of speed
causing his vehicle to go airborne.
Officials say the vehicle struck two pedestrians – killing
one, and seriously injuring the other.
Soule tried to flee on foot but was apprehended by deputies.
The murder charge was added in court today as the Highway
Patrol confirmed that Soule’s vehicle struck the two.
Soule was booked into the Gaston County jail early Monday
morning where he remains under a 2-million dollar secured bond.
A pair from Marion
is charged with assault after an ambush on Sunday sent a man to the hospital.
21-year-old Brian Austin Hollifield and 28-year-old Marion
Gwen McCullers both of Arbutus
Road are charged with assault inflicting serious
bodily injury.
A news release states the victim, 23-year-old Kyle Rhodes of
Marion reported
that McCullers picked him up and took him to the suspects’ house.
Reports say McCullers is Rhodes
former girlfriend.
He was transported to Mission
Hospital in Asheville with non-life threatening injuries.
Additional charges and arrests are pending.
A fugitive from Tennessee
was apprehended Friday in Alexander
County
Reports say deputies stopped the moped on NC 127 and checked
the driver’s ID.
Records showed the moped operator John Ray Davidson was a
wanted fugitive from Sullivan County Tennessee.
Davidson was wanted there for failing to appear in court in
2011 on a felony aggravated assault charge.
He was transported to the Alexander County
His bond was set at 25-thousand dollars.
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