Two men got into a heated altercation and shot at each other at a Dollar General in Nash County Saturday morning, according to the Nash County Sheriff’s Office. Both men were killed.
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Deputies responded to reports of gunfire at the Dollar General on South White Street in the town of Whitakers around 10 a.m., the Sheriff’s Office said in a Saturday afternoon statement on Facebook.
There, deputies found one man, Herbert Earl Lawrence Jr., with a gunshot wound to the chest. They began life-saving measures, the sheriff’s office said, but Lawrence died from his injuries.
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Deputies found the second man, Wilbert Silver III, at the intersection of Nash and White Streets, also suffering from a gunshot wound, the sheriff’s office said. Despite efforts to save his life, Silver also died from injuries.
The sheriff’s office said its preliminary investigation showed Lawrence and Silver “were involved a heated altercation that escalated into an exchange of gunfire.” The Sheriff’s Office did not release the two men’s ages. The investigation remains ongoing.
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