MINERAL SPRINGS, N.C. — One person is dead and two other people were injured after a shooting in Union County Monday, the Union County Sheriff's Office confirmed.
Officials are investigating in the 4500 block of Pleasant Grove Road near Mineral Springs, North Carolina.
The incident began Sunday night as a domestic dispute and resulted in a shooting Monday, officials told NBC Charlotte. All three people were shot, according to officials.
The gunshot wound call came in around 12:20 p.m. on Monday. When officials arrived, they found two men suffering from gunshot wounds.
“One was deceased, another had a wound to the torso area,” said Tony Underwood, spokesman for the Union County Sheriff’s Office.
Investigators say minutes after the shooting, they stopped a third man in a car approximately one mile away, 24-year-old Jeremy Carpenter. Deputies say Carpenter had also been shot in the hand and left the scene.
“It looks like it was some sort of domestic that more than likely started last night,” Underwood told NBC Charlotte.
Authorities say Carpenter had just been arrested on an assault charge at the home Sunday night. Deputies say he was released on bond early Monday morning, then returned to the home.
That’s when investigators believe Carpenter got into a fight with one of the men.
Deputies say when Carpenter went to get a gun from his vehicle there was a struggle over the gun and multiple shots were fired. The gunfire killed one man and injured Carpenter and the other man.
“At this point we are confident all individuals in the situation have been identified. In other words, we are not looking for anyone,” Underwood said.
Carpenter is being treated for his wound, and the surviving male victim is also being treated. Neither injuries appear to be life-threatening, officials say.
Investigators say Carpenter has a young child with a relative of the people who live at the home.
Additionally, investigators say the wife of the man who died was assaulted by Carpenter Sunday night, which led to Carpenter’s arrest. Carpenter was charged with assault on a female for that incident. The woman was treated and released for a head injury.
Authorities have not released the name of the man who died or the other man who was shot. At this point, no one has been charged with the shooting as deputies continue to investigate.
“Except for the traffic on the road it’s quiet as can be,” said neighbor David Carter. “It’s horrible, you see it on the news and then it hits close to home.”
Earlier this month, 15-year-old Zaria Joshalyn Burgess was allegedly killed by her father, 32-year-old Joshua Lee Burgess, in his Monroe home.
Earlier this summer, police from both North Carolina and South Carolina conducted a manhunt for a man accused of killing a Monroe mother trying to protect her kids during a home invasion.