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By SARAH HELTON Independent Staff WriterKidnapping charges have been filed against William Mackie “Buckie”Lowe, 32, in an abduction and shooting incident that began Monday at approximately 5 p.m. and didn’t end until around 2 o’clock this morning.Lowe used a gun to stand off 14 law enforcement officers for some three hours before turning the gun on himself, wounding himself in the side.The incident began when Lowe reportedly went to the home of Vera Joan Morgan, 21, of Evergreen Mobile Home Park off Mooresville Road, around 5 p.m. and abducted her at eunDoint, using her .32-caliberrevolver.Lowe was to appear in Superior Court this morning on a series of charges that included breaking, entering and larceny and a charge of communicating threats that was filed by Ms. Morgan. According to Kannapolis Police Chief Bob Ketchie, the couple had been dating.In the Monday night and early morning kidnapping incident, police reports show that Lowe forced Ms. Morgan at gunpoint to drive him to Davidson. No reason was indicated for the trip.Chief Ketchie said Lowe then forced Ms. Morgan to return to the Rowan County side of Kannapolis to the home of his mother, Mrs. Lillie Mae Lowe,at 109 West 8th Street, arriving there around 10 p.m. There, police reports say, Lowe made his mother leave the house, and he tied the Morgan woman’s hands and feet. Chief Ketchie said at one point, the woman told Lowe her tied hands hurt, and Lowe loosened them.Lowe’s mother alerted the Rowan County Sheriff’s Department at North Kannapolis, and nine North Kannapolis deputies, Chief J.L. Bost,Rowan County Sherrif John Stirewalt, and Officers Buddy Templeton, Leon Richardson and Jim Meeks of the Kannapolis Police Department arrived shortly on the scene.Lowe pointed the gun at the law enforcement officers and warned themthat if they tried to come in and take him he would kill the woman and then himself, police reports said.Lowe said he “wasn’t going back to prison,” noted Chief Bost, who said the abductor had been in prison “several times.” Currently breaking, entering and larceny, and possession of stolen goods charges are pending against Lowe.Bost said the officers kept talking to Lowe, and finally he released the girl, but continued to direct the firearm toward the officers, warning them not to try to come in after him.Approximately an hour later, after Lowe said he wanted to talk to Ms.See STANDOFF On Page 8A
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Kannapolis, North Carolina, US
Tue, Jul 15, 1980
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