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Local ManIs StabbedTo DeathBy SARAH HELTON Staff WriterWilliam “Buckie” Lowe, 32, of Kannapolis was stabbed to death Sunday while he was eating lunch in the dining hall at Central Prison in Raleigh. An AP Wire story noted that prison staff members witnessed the murder.Two prisoners are being held in connection with the stabbing, although formal charges have been delayed, pending an investigation, according to Stuart Shadbolt, a spokesman for the Department of Correction.Lowe was serving a 25 to 5(Kyear sentence for breaking, entering and larceny and kidnapping, stemming out of several incidences here, including one on July 14 in which he kidnapped Vera Joan Morgan, 21, of Kannapolis and held off 14 local law enforcement officers for some three hours before turning the gun on himself, wounding himself in the side.Earlier in the evening, police reports show Lowe had forced Ms. Morgan at gunpoint to drive him to Davidson, before returing to his mother’s home in North Kannapolis where the police were held at bay for several hours before he wounded himself. He was transported to Cabarrus Memorial Hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound in the side.Following the incident, it was revealed that Lowe and Ms. Morgan had been dating.While holding the police at bay, Lowe tied Ms. Morgan’s hands and feet and threatened to kill her and himself if the police tried to take him.“He said he wasn’t going back toprison,” Chief June Bost of the North Kannapolis branch of the Rowan Sheriff’s Department said following the kidnapping incident.At that time, Lowe was awaiting trial for a breaking and entering and larceny in Rowan County.Following the incident, a member of the Lowe family said she felt Lowe was suffering from “mental problems.”
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Kannapolis Daily Independent
Kannapolis, North Carolina, US
Mon, Jan 19, 1981
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