DALLAS, N.C. — The Gaston County Police Department has charged a woman with stabbing a man to death on Tuesday.
Officers were called to a home along Old Spencer Mountain Road in Dallas just before 7 p.m. that day regarding a suspicious death. They found 36-year-old Jacob Scott Stroupe dead in the driveway from an apparent stab wound.
As they investigated, officers say they determined 30-year-old Brandy Kachelle Wilson, of Gastonia, had killed Stroupe. Wilson and Stroupe were both previously in a relationship and had two children together.
Wilson was charged with 1st-degree murder and is now in jail with no bond, pending a first appearance in court.
The investigation is still ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call Det. R.C. Cogdill at 704-866-3320 or Crime Stoppers at 704-861-8000.
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