HICKORY, N.C. — The Hickory Police Department is investigating a homicide that left one person dead and another person injured. n
The incident happened on Wednesday at the Deluxe Inn on Hwy. 70 in Hickory. Police responded to a call at the Deluxe Inn shortly after 7:30 a.m. where they found 54-year-old James Anthony Russell unconscious.
Catawba County EMS arrived on the scene and determined Russell to be dead.
The caller, Brandon Keith Lovelace, 41, was still on the scene when the police arrived and investigators found that Russell and Lovelace had been in a confrontation.
Lovelace was injured from the confrontation and EMS transferred him to a local hospital. He was released later that day.
No charges have been filed at the time and this remains an ongoing investigation.
Hickory police ask anyone with information to call 828-328-5551.
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