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A Gaston County grand jury returned first-degree murder indictments this week against three people, including a 16-year-old girl, in a double homicide case that left men from Bessemer City and Kings Mountain dead. The grand jury also returned two true bills of indictment for first-degree murder against a 16-year-old girl, also from Taylorsville, in this case. Prosecutors have yet to move to ask a judge to allow them to charge the girl as an adult, a decision which could come in the next two weeks, according to court officials. While she remains a juvenile under North Carolina law, police and...

A three-day search for a man wanted for a double homicide in western Gaston County ended early Monday morning more than 60 miles away in a hotel in the foothills of western North Carolina. Police from two counties and four agencies captured 19-year-old Michael Shane Barnes of Taylorsville as he left a Quality Inn off U.S. 421 in Wilkesboro just after midnight. Barnes was booked into Gaston County Jail at 7:48 a.m. Monday without bond on two counts of first-degree murder in the Feb. 18 shooting deaths of Robert Lucas "Luke" Gibby, 22, of Bessemer City, and Adam Kale Wood, 19, of Kings Mountai...

Gaston County Police have now charged two more people with murder in a shooting last week that left two men dead and a third injured. Police charged Kaleb Isiah Carver, 21, of Taylorsville, with two counts of first-degree murder in the Feb. 18 shooting deaths of Robert Lucas "Luke" Gibby, 22, of Bessemer City, and Adam Kale Wood, 19, of Kings Mountain. Police filed juvenile petitions against a third person on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder. Carver was booked into Gaston County Jail without bond at 6:19 p.m. Monday. Earlier Monday, police arr...

Two men head to Gaston court as two families prepare funerals Six people - the oldest just 22, the youngest a 16-year-old girl  - reportedly were part of a meetup in western Gaston County last week on a cold, rainy February night where the purpose included the sale of marijuana. Before the clock struck midnight on Feb. 18, two of the men - Robert Lucas "Luke" Gibby, 22, of Bessemer City, and Adam Kale Wood, 19, of Kings Mountain - would be dead. Shot in the back, according to Gaston County Assistant District Attorney Chad Smith. Another man, 21-year-old Todd Payton Lee Waggoner of Winston-...

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