"BOLIVIA, NC — Instead of spending his Labor Day weekend attending barbecues, relaxing with friends, Bryan Dunlop is turning a tree into a memorial.
"`It's our way of paying homage to the three that were killed,` said Dunlop. `They're like our brothers and sisters, everyone knows everyone.`
"The small Brunswick County community of Sunset Harbor is known for being located off the intra coastal waterway, but Sunday, it's making headlines for being the scene of a shooting that left three people dead.
"Investigators have not released the names of the victims or what exactly happened, but according to Dunlop, his friend and employee Brandon Warr shot his estranged wife and another man.
"`She (Warr's estranged wife) left and moved in with another gentleman down here. Over the past couple of weeks, I've been spending time with Brandon, going to dinner, trying to help him get through this,` said Dunlop. `I guess it came to be too much last night.`
"Friends say, the three victims were attending a Labor Day fundraiser Saturday night at the Brunswick County Fishing Club when the shooting happened. Dunlop says he never expected his friend to open fire.
"`Brandon was a very stable young man. I had talked to him twenty minutes before everything happened. We were supposed to go out today and look at jobs,` said Dunlop.
"People living in the close knit community are heartbroken.
"Raymond Brooks knew all three victims.
"`When I went home last night I didn't sleep, just thinking about everything. They are all my friends, I just saw them three weeks ago in Oak Island,` remembered Brooks. `This is just something that's very bad.`
"But as the boating community tries to forget what happened, they won't forget the lives that were lost."
From WCET.com...
Maybe I'm going out on a limb for this one, but I'm calling it a Murder/Suicide. The local police just aren't talking, but this incident has all the classic indicators.
ReplyDeleteSometimes small towns like this just can't face the gruesome facts. It could be weeks before an official ruling is made. Maybe the cops don't want to ruin the holiday weekend, not that it could get any worse at this point.
Well, I called it.
ReplyDeleteI'm still waiting to hear what really happened with Brianna Shaw & Artha Griffin in Lufkin, Texas last month...
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