R.C. Soles Jr., longtime NC legislator who quietly dodged scandal, dies at age 86 Richard Stradling, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Feb. 6 RALEIGH R.C. Soles Jr., who represented his native Columbus County in the General Assembly for 42 years and became one of the state s top Democratic lawmakers before retiring after shooting a former legal client in the leg, has died at age 86.
His death at a hospital in Loris, South Carolina, south of Tabor City, on Friday was announced by the Inman Ward Funeral Home and first reported by The News Reporter in Whiteville, the county seat where Soles practiced law for decades.