Updated: 12:48 PM EDT May 19, 2021
SALISBURY, N.C. The Rowan County Sheriff s Office has launched a murder investigation after a woman died of a gunshot wound Tuesday night.
According to deputies, a Rowan County EMS unit was approached by a man in a black pickup truck after they responded to an unrelated medical call along Gheen Road near Salisbury around 10:45 p.m. The man told EMS workers he had a woman in his car parked outside a house down the road with a gunshot wound. Personnel then made their way to the woman to treat her, but the man left the scene in his truck. Paramedics quickly loaded the woman into an ambulance and took her to a hospital for treatment.
33-Year-Old Woman Killed When Person Jumps Out Of Ditch And Shoots Her In Salisbury
May 19, 2021
ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. An investigation is underway after a woman was shot in the driveway of a Salisbury home Tuesday night.
The Rowan County Sheriff’s Office responded to a Gheen Road residence around 10:45 p.m. after a report of a gunshot victim at the location. Officers said 33-year-old April Whitley and at least two other people pulled into the driveway of the home and upon exiting the vehicle someone jumped out of a nearby ditch and started shooting. Whitley was then struck in the right side of her chest.