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Posted: Jul 28, 2012 3:03 PM EDT Updated: Jul 28, 2012 3:03 PM EDT
By Martha Sellers - email
TAYLORSVILLE, NC (WBTV) - A Wilkesboro man is in jail charged with murder after three people were shot early Saturday morning.
Alexander County sheriff's deputies were called to Steve Watts Drive in Taylorsville around 2:00 a.m. They discovered one person had been killed Two others had been shot and were taken to the hospital.
No names have been released.
Deputies arrested Mark Anthony McWhorter Jr, 28, of Wilkesboro on the scene. McWhorter is charged with one count of second degree murder. Other charges could be filed ...
http://www.wbtv.com/story/19137665/man-arrested-for-triple-shooting-in-alexander-county-one-dead
Man jailed for murder in Alexander
... Mark Anthony McWhorter Jr., 28, is charged with killing Andre Connor, 21, of Taylorsville, and with shooting two other people during a party at a house at 326 Steve Watts Drive, a dead end road off Piney Grove Road northeast of Taylorsville.
Chief Deputy Todd Jones of the Alexander Sheriffs Department said McWhorter was charged with second-degree murder on Saturday and with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury late this morning.
Alexander deputies found Connor deceased and two other people shot when they responded to a report of shots being fired at the house. Jones said McWhorter was taken into custody at the same house ...
http://www.journalpatriot.com/news/article_afcf4f5e-da6a-11e1-8dea-001a4bcf6878.html
Jones said the shootings occurred after an argument broke out during the party. He said a 9mm handgun identified as the weapon used by McWhorter was recovered at the scene. A dispatcher received a 911 call reporting the incident about 2 a.m. Saturday ...