SUSPECTED GUNMAN ARRESTED....AT HOSPITAL



By Jon Mayhew

HICKORY -- Police didn't have to go very far Sunday in Hickory to catch a man suspected in the shooting of two other people. They simply had to visit the hospital.

While police investigated the shooting that happened on Second Street Southeast in Hickory around 3 a.m. Sunday, they learned suspect Brandon Jamar Carson arrived at Catawba Valley Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the foot.

Carson is accused of shooting Narissa Huff, 24, Hickory, and Milton Lineberger, 40, of Maiden. Both were shot in the torso and taken to Frye Regional Medical Center. Huff was treated and released; Lineberger, meantime, was still hospitalized as of Tuesday for non-life threatening injuries.

The 27-year-old Carson was charged with two counts of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury and felony possession of a weapon by a felon.

While there's an arrest in the case, authorities say the incident is still under investigation.