Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, October 7, 1995 TAG: 9510090027
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: KATHY LOAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: HIWASSEE LENGTH: Medium
Other charges are pending, Sheriff Ralph Dobbins said, because deputies were fired upon when they went to investigate the shooting.
Dobbins gave this account of the shooting:
Hiwassee neighbors Carl C. Wright, 56, and Lilborn Linwood Foutz, 68, had been drinking together in Foutz's trailer Thursday.
The two had no known problems, but just after 8 p.m., the sheriff's office received a call from Wright's home reporting that Wright had been shot three or four times.
When deputies arrived, they found Wright had been shot about five times in the neck, chest and arms with a .22-caliber pistol, Dobbins said.
Wright was taken to Pulaski Community Hospital, where he underwent surgery and was placed in the intensive care unit.
He was transferred to Roanoke Memorial Hospital Friday. A condition report was unavailable Friday afternoon.
Witnesses who had gone to Foutz's trailer and taken Wright out "said Foutz was in the trailer with a pistol waiting on us to arrive because he wasn't going to be taken," Dobbins said.
Foutz stepped out of the trailer and began shooting at the deputies, Dobbins said.
A tactical response team made up of deputies and members of the Pulaski and Dublin police departments was called to the scene.
The team members got into position, turned a spotlight on the trailer and Foutz came outside. He was taken into custody without incident or injury at 9:45 p.m., Dobbins said.
Foutz has been charged with malicious wounding and using a firearm to commit a felony, the sheriff said. Other charges, involving firing at the deputies, were pending, Dobbins said.
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