Friday's Internet Edition, September 10, 2010.
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| Davie Sheriff’s Detectives Kim Palmer and Terry Carter bring Gordon Smith to the Davie County Magistrate’s officer, where he was charged with murder. - Photo by Robin Snow |
Gordon Smith, 54, of Ben Anderson Road, Mocksville was arrested Friday afternoon, April 9.
He was brought into the sheriff’s department from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, still wearing a gown and socks, and he was charged with murder. He’d been at Baptist for treatment since last Friday for a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his chest.
He is charged with the murder of his wife, Diane Smith, 48, who was found shot inside the bedroom of their home shortly after 9 a.m. last Friday.
According to Davie Sheriff’s Chief Deputy J.D. Hartman, authorities in Elkin contacted officials here on April 2 asking for assistance in contacting Gordon’s next of kin.
On the morning of the incident, Gordon had driven himself from their home to Hugh Chatham Hospital in Elkin. He told hospital staff that he’d shot himself and he was ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise, P.O. Box 4639, Salisbury, N.C. 28145.