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Lisa Lineberger didn't think Mike Rick planned to kill anybody, but it was clear, she said, that he was in a rage.

Gastonia mother's tears in court painful reminder of loss of son A mother's sobbing provided a painful reminder of what brought two families to Gaston County District Court Tuesday. "Liam was our whole world. Our family's whole world. He touched a lot of people's lives," Brandi Birrittier would say moments after court proceedings had ended. Attorneys speak in a deadpan, matter-of-fact voice as they describe legal matters in a courtroom setting. With no intent of disrespect, attorney Larry Hoyle was emotionless as he described to a judge how an action by his client, 20-year-old Gracie Malay...

19 and facing life in prison, Gaston teen makes court appearance Almost six months to the day after getting out of prison, 19-year-old Darrick Lamar Johnson was back again before a Gaston County judge, this time shackled at the waist and facing two counts of first-degree murder. A conviction on either charge would carry a life sentence without parole for Johnson, who finished a one-year stint in prison on Sept. 6, 2020, for larceny and gun convictions when he was just 17. Johnson spent two minutes Tuesday before District Court Judge Michael Lands. Police accuse Johnson, along with two other ...

Third person charged in Gaston County double homicide

Gaston prosecutor doubts alibi of double-murder suspect A Gastonia man man facing two first-degree murder charges seemed to blame another man for two homicides last week that appear to also involve drugs and money. Charlie James Stiles, 24, made his first court appearance Tuesday in Gaston County District Court while being represented by attorney Larry Hoyle. A second suspect, Jordan Cameron Moses, 29, of 1411 Gaston Way, Dallas, also faces two first-degree murder charges and an attempted first-degree murder charge in the case, but so far he has eluded police. Stiles and Moses were at the...