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Newspaper
The Gaston Gazette
Location
Gastonia, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 2016
Page
1
Gaston County police say Wesley Snipes, 33, of Cherryville, intentionally bumped a social worker in the Gaston County Courthouse hall, triggering assault on a court officer charge. He was booked Monday night and released on 3000 bond.
A compiled obituary notice lists Betty Richard 83 of Yale Arnold Brown Sr 87 of York Gastor Kowalski Jr 64 Ruby Melton 92 of Gastonia Laura Wright 67 Gastonia Meredith Cummings 24 Shelby James Lipscomb 71 Gastonia John Speas 57 Bessemer City Wayne Liddell 87 Mt Holly Ola Messer 92 Gastonia Carroll Robinson 90 York S C Daphne Bryson 94 Kings Mountain Robert Ashe 84 York S C Gregory Kendrick 64 Gastonia Letha Metcalf 89 Kings Sherri Hovis 41 Dallas Brenda Shull 54 Cherryville Joe Harand 89 Shelby.
An ill witness may depose in July in the Crystal Gambino case in which she faces three counts of first degree murder for the Feb scene that left Giovanni Gambino Geoffrey Gilliland and Stephanielynn Sanchez dead. The deposition could shape prosecution and defense strategy.
About 40 officials from the N C Forest Service and Mount Holly and East Lincoln fire departments gathered in Stanleys Educational State Forest for a three day wildfire training. A rain soaked landscape and lack of wind halted a planned prescribed burn, leaving planes and helicopters to simulate response while bulldozers cleared lines and crews extinguished controlled blazes. Ranger Ferrell Banks called the session efficient but not optimal, noting real fires would heighten training intensity.
Donald Baxter Wells Jr. of West Fifth Avenue pushed a woman, kicked her legs, and poured a beer over her head in a domestic violence incident. The 56 year old faces misdemeanor assault on a female and remains jailed on a DV hold. Wells has prior assault and other arrests and was a suspect in the 1997 killing of 76 year old Sarah McAbee found in a Gaston County well near Tryon Elementary School.
A Gaston County teen, Jose Adan Lopez-Rios, who turned 18 on Thursday, is held without bond for a double killing that happened May 26. Investigators say he shot 33-year-old Derreck Brice and 26-year-old Lashea Coleman, who had cerebral palsy, both cousins and acquaintances at a church event earlier that week. Police still seek motive while noting the killings were not random. Lopez-Rios asked for English interpretation as his hearing noted language barriers.
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