N.C. Sen. R.C. Soles apparently shot one of two would-be intruders at his home just outside Tabor City around 5 p.m. Sunday evening.
The victim, Kyle Blackburn, was transported to a South Carolina hospital, but the injuries were not reported to be life threatening, according to Rex Gore, district attorney for Columbus, Bladen and Brunswick counties.
The State Bureau of Investigation and Columbus County Sheriff’s Department are investigating the shooting.
Soles, who was not arrested, declined to discuss the incident when reached Sunday evening.
"I am not in a position to talk to you,” Soles, 74, said by telephone Sunday night. “I'm right in the middle of an investigation.”
Soles, a top-ranking Democrat and longest-serving member of the legislature, already was the subject of an SBI investigation over a sexual misconduct allegation – later recanted – by a former client.
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I can't get over why this is such a big story. Obviously many of you haven't spent much time in Tabor City.......where two men enter, one man leaves.