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Hoke Count3^s newspaper since 1905
No.45Vol.ll2
Raeford & Hoke County n.c.
Wednesday, January 10,2018
2 shot at gas station, drug deal blamed
1 flown, other driven to hospitals, search is on for gunman
Two men were shot and seriously injured
Sunday afternoon at a gas station across
from West Hoke Middle School in what in
vestigators helieve was a drug deal gone had,
according to the Raeford Police Department.
Justin Moore, 28, of Candor and Steven
McClain, 26, of Dunn were both injured
in the gunfire, Raeford Police Chief Marc
Godwin said. The shooting happened around
4:30 p.m. Sunday at the Liberty gas station,
located at 526 Aberdeen Road just inside the
Raeford city jurisdiction.
Police officers responded in reference
to a 911 call about a person who had been
shot and needed assistance. When officers
arrived, they learned that both Moore and
McClain had been shot.
Both of the shooting victims were seri
ously injured. Rescuers transported McClain
to an area hospital by ambulance, and called
in a Life Flight helicopter to transport Moore
to another hospital.
“Both of them are in very serious condi
tion still,” Godwin said.
Investigators handling the case believe
that the shooting was possibly the result of a
drug deal gone wrong.
“None of them were local. They seemed
to meet here. It seems to be the result of a
bad drug transaction,” Godwin said.
There are “other people of interest at this
time” in the case, he said.
No charges have been filed yet. Authori
ties are still working with the District At
torney’s office on determining what charges
might be brought in the case.
Snow!
Pretty, dry blanket
covers, paralyzes Hoke
By Catharin Shepard
Staff writer
What was originally forecast as a “dusting” to an
inch of snow for the Sandhills region ended with
several counties, including Hoke, buried under about
half a foot of powder - and a prolonged blast of Arc
tic air kept it around for days.
(See SNOW, page 10)
Snow puff
Skye Hammond submitted this photo of herself enjoying the snow. In doing so, she snagged
first place and $50 in our OhSnap Photo Contest special snow edition. She is the daughter
of Nicole Jackson.
Run away! 10-year-old Campbell
Burt, armed with a snowball, is not
to be trifled with. Her mother
Dawn captured the moment.
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Mush!
8-year-old Giana Martinez takes the reins of her homemade dog sled while her Huskies prepare to pull her; well, while one of her
Huskies prepares to pull.The photo was submitted in our OhSnap Photo Contest winter edition by her mother Giana.
Landen Oxendine and Alexis Lester with their Power
Wheels are having the same driving problems everyone
else in Hoke County had. Submitted by Jessica Leach.
Noise from Bragg not out of line, commissioners told
By Catharin Shepard
Staff writer
A few parts of Hoke County immedi
ately surrounding the Fort Bragg military
installation have seen an increase in noise
over the last decade, but generally noise lev
els from weapons fire have stayed the same,
according to a study presented last week to
the Hoke County Board of Commissioners.
The Regional Land Use Advisory
Commission (RLUAC) presented com
missioners with an update on the ongoing
Joint Land Use Study that is looking at the
connection between Fort Bragg and the
counties surrounding it. While the full re
port won’t be complete until later this year,
RLUAC completed work on the noise study
section and offered the information to local
governments in the area.
RLUAC’s land use study looked at two
measures of noise levels, including Day-
Night Average Noise Level (abbreviated as
CDNL) and the Peak Noise Level (PK15)
metric. The study examined the noise levels
from large-caliber weapons, small arms fire
and aircraft noise from Pope, Simmons and
Mackall air fields, and drew maps called
“noise contours” that show where the loud
est noises are contained. The study took
its CDNL measurements over a 250-day
period.
The loudest “single event” noises on the
base come from weapons fire that can reach
into the 130-plus decibel range, louder than
a thunderclap but not quite as loud as a jet
taking off. Those areas with the highest
amounts of noise are contained within the
base, according to the study.
(See NOISE, page 2)
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Speed a factor in fatal Rockfish wreck
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Hoke County!
By Ken MacDonald
The snow storm left me with a few days to commit
woodworking, which is the craft of making things out of
wood for only three times what they cost in the store, or,
if from China, eight times.
Unfortunately, the storm left me without a truck, whose
sorry *** I had to abandon beside the road on the way
home from work Wednesday, because I had believed the
forecast and didn’t see a need to load the truck bed down
with 800 pounds of something to gain traction. I saw that
need about four miles from home, but then it was too
late—darlin’, we’re going down. A nice young guy in
(See OTHER STUEE, page 7)
Investigators suspect that
speeds topping 90 miles
an hour may have led to a
wreck that killed one man
from Raeford and injured
another, according to the
North Carolina Highway
Patrol.
The December 28 wreck
on Pittman Grove Church
Road killed 29-year-old
Philip Lee, known to many
as “Peewee,” and injured
Larue McBryde, both of
Raeford.
The single-vehicle ac
cident happened when
the car that McBryde was
driving ran off the road and
struck several trees on the
passenger side while going
possibly over 90 miles an
hour, according to Highway
Patrol Information Officer
Trooper Pierce. The accident
happened around 12:20 a.m.
It appears that McBryde lost
control of the vehicle. Pierce
said.
“The vehicle ran off the
road to the left, overcor
rected, returned to the road
and ran off the road to the
right. They were traveling
at a very high rate of speed.
Possibly over 90 miles an
hour at the time the vehicle
lost control,” the trooper
said. “After they ran off the
road to the right, the vehicle
struck several trees.”
Lee and McBryde were
not wearing seatbelts at the
time of the accident,
(See WRECK, page 6)