Rob Eastwood

CRIME HICKORY, N.C., (WHKY) – Hickory Police arrested a man this morning (October 10) after responding to a report of shots-fired. 32-year-old Reginald Laver Davis, Jr. of Bethany Church Road in Claremont, was charged with discharging a firearm in the city limits and going armed to the terror of the people. The suspect allegedly fired a shot in the air at the Reverb Lounge on US Highway 70 SW in Hickory. Davis was placed in the Catawba County Detention Facility under a bond of $50,000.

CRIME, NEWS TAYLORSVILLE, N.C. (WACB) – An Alexander County man entered a guilty plea in connection to the murder of his grandmother. He will serve life in prison without the possibility of parole. 41-year-old Nathan Lee Lowe entered the plea to first-degree murder in a special session of Alexander County Superior Court Friday (October 9). By agreeing to the plea deal, Lowe avoids the death penalty.

CRIME NEWTON, N.C. (WHKY) – 53-year-old Richard Conley Rice was arrested by the Hickory Police Department today (October 10) and charged with felony possession of a Schedule II controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. Rice was also charged with failure to appear in court on a separate count involving impeding traffic by sitting, standing or lying in a roadway. Court records list a $2,500 bond on the felony drug possession charge and a $1,000 bond on the failure-to-appear charge.