Lincoln County man sentenced to life after shooting, killing man at close range with sawed-off shotgun in 2017
LINCOLN COUNTY, N.C. (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) – A Lincoln County gentleman will invest the rest of his life in prison right after he was located guilty of initially-diploma murder in the brutal killing of a different person again in 2017.
The fatal shooting transpired all over 11 p.m. on August 25, 2017, alongside Wildale Lane in Lincolnton.
According to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Business, as deputies arrived at the scene, the suspect, recognized as Ronald Wayne Vaughn Jr., 29, was at the property, and the target, discovered as Gary Lee Somerset, 27, was located inside of a auto parked in the back again yard.
Deputies reported Somerset had been shot in the upper body and neck at close selection with a sawed-off shotgun. Somerset was pronounced useless at the scene from his injuries.
Vaughn Jr. was taken into custody with no incident at the scene. He was interviewed by Sheriff’s detectives the place he then confessed to shooting Somerset with the shotgun which was recovered at the criminal offense scene.
A jury identified Vaughn Jr. guilty of first-diploma murder and possession of a weapon of mass destruction on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021. Vaughn Jr. was then sentenced to lifetime in jail without having the chance of parole.
Vaughn Jr. is staying held in the Harven A. Crouse Detention Heart.
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