Updated: 6:50 PM EDT May 1, 2021 WXII12.com Web Staff Sommer Barnes lost her mother, stepfather and brother Wednesday during the hours-long standoff in Boone.She spoke with our NBC affiliate, WCNC, about what may have led her brother, 32-year-old Isaac Alton Barnes, to the standoff that also killed two Watauga County deputies.Sommer Barnes told WCNC that her brother was sometimes eccentric and quirky, but it wasn t until about two years ago that her family noticed a change.“He seemed paranoid and delusional and he was just afraid,” Sommer Barnes told WCNC.The family had been trying to get Isaac Barnes help since that point, with support groups and reaching out to advocates like the National Alliance on Mental Illness, but the resources weren t there to help him, according to WCNC.“If we could have forced him into it, we would have, but there’s just not a way to do that with an adult,” Sommer Barnes told WCNC. “Any suggestion we made that he needed
A gunman who killed himself, two deputies and his mother and stepfather in a 13-hour home standoff in North Carolina had a large cache of weapons and may have been contemplating an attack in public, a sheriff said Thursday.
âThey didnât deserve thisâ; Couple killed in Watauga Co. mass shooting remembered as pillars in community
Couple killed in Watauga Co. mass shooting remembered as pillars in community By WBTV Web Staff, Paige Pauroso, and Alex Giles | April 29, 2021 at 8:02 PM EDT - Updated April 29 at 11:22 PM
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - The husband and wife who were killed in a mass shooting in Watauga County are being remembered as prominent members of the Boone community.
Authorities say a man killed his mother, stepfather and two deputies during an hours-long standoff in Watauga County Wednesday. A third officer was also shot in the standoff.
BOONE, N.C. A married couple found dead along with a suspected gunman after a 13-hour standoff at a North Carolina home were members of the same family, a sheriff s office said Thursday. Two deputies also were fatally shot in the home. The Watauga County Sheriff s Office said George Wyatt Ligon, 58, and Michelle Annette Ligon, 61, were killed Wednesday inside their home in Boone. A sheriff s statement said the suspect, Isaac Alton Barnes, 32, also was found dead at the home and had a large number of weapons. Barnes was identified as Michelle Ligon s son and George Ligon s stepson. Authorities said Barnes was suspected in the fatal shootings of two deputies who had been dispatched to the home Wednesday. Sgt. Chris Ward died at a hospital in Johnson City, Tennessee, after Wednesday s shooting while K-9 Officer Logan Fox died at the scene, the sheriff s office said.