Friday's Internet Edition, September 10, 2010.
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| EMS worker Andy Lipscomb talks with Sheriff Andy Stokes and Chief Deputy J.D. Hartman at the scene. - Photo by Robin Snow |
According to Davie Sheriff’s Chief Deputy J.D. Hartman, the body of Diane Smith, 48, was found at approximately 9:17 a.m. on April 2 in the bedroom of her home on Ben Anderson Road.
Hartman said authorities here were contacted by the Elkin Police Department Friday morning asking their help in contacting next of kin of Gordon Smith, 54, Diane’s husband. Mr. Smith was in Elkin at Hugh Chatham Hospital, where he had driven himself from the home he and Diane shared, almost 30 miles away.
Mr. Smith was airlifted from Elkin to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem. He had been shot in the chest, according to Hartman.
“Mr. Smith told the hospital staff in Elkin that he had shot himself,” Hartman said. “He’s still at Baptist and has declined to speak with us.”
Hartman said that investigators ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 4639, Salisbury, N.C. 28145.