Kinston man accused of shooting into crop duster
The Associated Press
March 11, 2003 5:21 pm
Posted on 03/12/2003 7:32:54 AM PST by Constitution Day
The Associated Press
Kinston man accused of shooting into crop duster
March 11, 2003 5:21 pm
KINSTON, N.C. -- A Lenoir County man was accused of firing three shots into a crop-dusting plane, forcing it to land, authorities said.
Anthony Gene Moore, 36, of Kinston was charged with one count of firing into an occupied vehicle, according to court papers. He was released from jail Monday after posting a $100,000 bond.
The Lenoir County Sheriff's Department police report said the suspect said he shot the plane Sunday "because it was annoying him."
The sheriff's department said the shooting occurred as pilot Don Wayne Slaughter of Farmville sprayed pine trees. The pilot told investigators he heard bullets hitting his plane as he flew at an altitude of about 75 feet. When he looked down, he spotted a man on the ground firing a rifle at him.
Three bullets hit his plane. Two passed through the plane's left wing, while a third shot penetrated the plane's belly and lodged in its battery, causing it to explode.
Slaughter flew the damaged plane, identified as a 1986 AT 301 Air Tractor, to the Global TransPark near Kinston and notified the sheriff's department. Slaughter was not injured. Investigators say they confiscated a rifle and several cartridge casings at Moore's house.
John Davis, a local certified flight instructor, said the damage to the plane probably wasn't enough to put it or its pilot in any immediate danger.
"A bullet through the pilot is probably the worst thing that could come out of it," Davis said. "There's nothing to protect the pilot."
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An Adams County sheriff's deputy was shot and killed Friday by a man who apparently became angry with a highway crew that was cutting brush on a road near his home, authorities said.
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After the shooting, the man held police at bay until tactical officers rushed him and placed him under arrest just after 6 p.m.
Sheriff's deputies were called to the home in the Town of Strongs Prairie after the man confronted a highway crew while the workers were cutting brush, police said. The report came in as a person with a rifle who was making threatening statements, Chief Deputy Alex Bebris said.
One of the highway workers, who declined to give his name, said he and the other workers were not on the man's property but were near it. He said the suspect did not attempt to shoot at the workers.
However, the suspect was armed when deputies arrived, and he shot the deputy during a confrontation, Bebris said. The deputy died later at an area hospital.
"It's like losing one of your kids," Adams County Sheriff Roberta Sindelar said. "I was at the hospital when it happened."
Adams County Coroner Nate Kronstedt confirmed that the deputy had died, but said no other details were being released.
The suspect gave his version of what happened over a police scanner, using a radio he took from the deputy.
"They were cutting trees on my property line, and I asked them to leave," the suspect said over the scanner. "I didn't want anyone to get hurt . . . But they shot at me, and I shot back."
Sindelar disputed that claim. "No one shot at him," she said.
Sindelar said the standoff ended when a tactical team took a telephone to the 53-year-old suspect's trailer home in an armored vehicle. Once the suspect came to the door for the phone, tactical officers rushed him and gunfire was exchanged, but no one was hurt, she said.
Those who were acquainted with the man said he never appeared to be violent. "He's just an average person," the highway worker said.
They were Yankees, anyhow! :)
He did and he was.
< /sarcasm >
Note for Ivan, over here, iced tea with sugar already added is referred to as 'Sweet tea,' at least in the south. There is no equivalent up north.
Nice shooting though.
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That's very serial killerish.
If you want on or off this list, please let me know!
Come to think of it, it IS serial killerish... Henry Lee Lucas & John Wayne Gacy come to mind.
Was the pilot a dummmocrap?
At least his name wasn't John Wayne Moore. All serial killers are named after tough guy actors. It's a law, I think...
Yep! Sounds about right.
There IS no equivalent up north, and adding sugar to already-cold tea doesn't work!
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