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State probes home shooting by veteran NC lawmaker

Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:20 PM EDT
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Associated Press
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TABOR CITY — State investigators are looking into why North Carolina's longest serving lawmaker shot an intruder at his home.

A spokeswoman for the State Bureau of Investigation said Monday its agents are in charge of the probe into the weekend shooting at the home of 74-year-old state Sen. R.C. Soles in Tabor City.

Sheriff Chris Batten said the shooting occurred Sunday when two men went to the senator's house and tried to kick in his front door. No charges have been filed.

The man who was shot, Kyle Blackburn, was in a hospital in fair condition Monday

Soles declined through a spokeswoman to answer questions.

Soles is a Democrat who has spent 40 years in the state General Assembly, the past 32 years in the Senate.

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good. Maybe the more often someone gets shot for breaking into someone's house the less often crinimals will try it...

No mention of the senators political party...I bet he's a democrat...usually they mention when it is a republican or independant (not that it changes the story...just an observation).

    Reply#1 - Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:58 AM EDT
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