The Asheville Police Department is seeking the public’s help in locating a man wanted in a 2007 double murder.
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Memorial for the slain at West Asheville crime scene
A memorial for the victims of last weeks knife fight outside the closed bar on Haywood Road.
(photo by Bill Rhodes)
Owner of Mike’s Side Pocket surrenders liquor license
Confirmed by state Alcohol Law Enforcement supervisor, Betty Cook voluntarily surrendered her liquor license this afternoon
UPDATE: April 4 West Asheville knife spree leaves three — including killer — dead
An apparently intoxicated man who had been earlier asked to leave a Haywood Road bar returned with knife in hand and turned the evening into chaos.
(Photo by Bill Rhodes)
Manhunt continues for murder suspect Devon Gayles
From the Asheville Police Department: A warrant has been issued for Devon Armond Gayles of Candler after a downtown shooting leaves one dead on Dec. 24.
Two dead in apparent murder-suicide in east Asheville
The Asheville Police Department reports an apparent murder-suicide in East Asheville, leaving two — Diana Smith McGovern, 50 and William Michael McGovern, 51 — dead.
A week on, clues still sought in Parkway murder ***UPDATED 5:40 p.m.***
A week after the body of Misty Lynn Carter, 21, was found on the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office is still seeking clues in the case. This afternoon, investigators revealed that blunt force trauma to the head was the cause of death.
Police seek teen in first-degree murder ***UPDATE: Suspect has turned himself in, says APD***
The Asheville Police Department has charged Marcus Austin Thorpe, 17, with first-degree murder in the Sept. 12 shooting in Hillcrest Apartments that left one man dead and one woman injured. Thorpe is still at large, and considered armed and dangerous. ***UPDATE: Suspect has turned himself in, says APD***
Man charged in July 4 slaying; APD gives details **With video**
The Asheville Police Department has charged Steven Gordon Shultz with stabbing Frederick Garfield McLeod in the Beaucatcher Cinemas parking lot on Tunnel Road. In a press conference this morning, Capt. Tim Splain asserted that McLeod was a crack-cocaine dealer, and that the stabbing happened during a drug deal.